http://www.techworld.com/news/security/mystery-comrat-cyber-surveillance-tool-still-going-strong-researchers-confirm-3594612/ By John E Dunn Techworld.com Jan 20, 2015 Security experts seem no nearer to confirming the nation state behind the long-running Uroburos (aka ‘Snake’ or ‘Turla’) cyberweapon (Russia) but according to German security firm G Data its developers are still hard at work. The rootkit’s existence was firmed up last March when BAE Systems, G Data and Kaspersky published separate research suggesting it had been used to compromise large enterprises and government networks for years, including its predecessor, Agent.BTZ, successfully used against the US military in 2008. G Data has continued researching the software, with a new blog note offering a fuller development and version history for what is clearly a major intelligence-gathering and compromise platform of which Uroburos was only one component. The earliest detection of 46 samples looked at was version 1.5 in June 2007 right up to a new RAT, ComRAT, discovered in 2014. BAE Systems believes this platform goes back even further, to 2005, which would make it the oldest nation state malware currently known about (Stuxnet probably didn’t get going until 2006). […]