back to article APT group hacks cyber-spy gang in spy-on-spy pwnage

Cyber-spy groups, whose numbers are growing with little constraint, have begun hacking each other. Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyber-espionage group, was subjected to a spear-phishing attack by another threat actor last year, before deciding to strike back with its own malware-infected emails. The aftermath …

  1. Alister

    Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room

    or, how I learned to love the Bomb...

    :)

  2. ElReg!comments!Pierre
    Paris Hilton

    That's a rather...

    ... APT developpment, if I may.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Well colour me surprised. Whoda thunk it?

    Next you'll be telling me that GCHQ listen to CIA traffic and vice versa!

    Wow. Consider my mind blown.

    /sarcasm, obvs

  4. Sgt_Oddball

    Well they can't have our precious bodily fluids!

    Damned commies!

    I'll get my coat. (it's the one with the scuff marks on the right arm)

  5. Mark 85
    Devil

    This might be a good thing....

    Maybe they'll be so busy attacking each other that the rest of us will get left alone.

  6. x 7

    I must be getting old....I thought "APT" stood for "Advanced Passenger Train"

    1. Captain DaFt

      "I must be getting old....I thought "APT" stood for "Advanced Passenger Train""

      These days it's "All People (are) Terrorists" according to the NSA.

      1. Mark 85

        Spot on.. but I'd like to amend that to "according to any of the 5-eyes".

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ahh.. Flashbacks of Decepticons vs. Legion of Doom. Such were the good old days.

    This isn't new(s).

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