InfoSec News Nuggets 10/07/2019

Kaspersky finds Uzbekistan hacking op… because group used Kaspersky AV A new "threat actor" tied to Uzbekistan's State Security Service has been unmasked by threat researchers at Kaspersky Lab. And the unmasking wasn't very hard to do, since, as Kim Zetter reports for Vice, the government group used Kaspersky antivirus software—which sent binaries of the malware it was developing back to Kaspersky for analysis. Uzbekistan has not been known for having a cyber-espionage capability. But the…
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