The strange religious-themed malware “Mahdi” that has been detected recording information from computers in the Middle East is part of an ongoing surveillance campaign in the region, and more variants of the malware are expected to emerge, according to cybersecurity experts.“We have analyzed several versions of the malware,” said Aviv Raff, chief technology officer of Seculert, an Israeli cybersecurity firm that was the first to detect and publicize the Mahdi malware on Tuesday.
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