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At Shadowserver we have observed cyber threat actors use strategic web compromise as an avenue to infect high-value victims. There are a number of ways that a threat actor can gain administrative access to a strategically important website.

A cyber espionage threat group, frequently known as the Comment Group, has recently received a good bit of extra attention in the last few days. On February 18, 2013, Mandiant released a report detailing a substantial amount of information on the group.

In the last year, attackers engaged in cyber espionage have increasingly turned to the web to distribute their malware via drive-by exploits. The idea of distributing malware via drive-by exploits is not new at all.

In recent weeks thousands documents have been released online by a hacktivist going by the online moniker of "Hardcore Charlie." These documents appear to have potentially been sourced and possibly stolen from various businesses and governments in different countries including the United States, the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, and others.