Looks like a group of hackers, calls themselves as “Lords of Dharmaraja” from India got hands on Norton Antivirus source code. Apart from the Symantec (makers of Norton Antivirus) hack, another interested info about the India govt., was revealed.
The group claims that it had obtained sensitive info from the Indian Military Intelligence server and claims that they had discovered secret agreements between dozen of software companies and Indian Govt.
According to the documents which were internal communications between India Military, the documents claim the existence of a system known as RINO SUR. According to the leaked documents, the RINOA SUR platform was used to spy on the USCC (US- China Economic and security Review Commission. RINOA SUR platform was made of RIm (Blackberry), NOkia, Apple. And local vendor like Micromax etc., were given permission to operate in India (largest and fast growing economy in the world) in exchange for providing backdoor access (spying).
Source: ZDNet
The group claims that it had obtained sensitive info from the Indian Military Intelligence server and claims that they had discovered secret agreements between dozen of software companies and Indian Govt.
According to the documents which were internal communications between India Military, the documents claim the existence of a system known as RINO SUR. According to the leaked documents, the RINOA SUR platform was used to spy on the USCC (US- China Economic and security Review Commission. RINOA SUR platform was made of RIm (Blackberry), NOkia, Apple. And local vendor like Micromax etc., were given permission to operate in India (largest and fast growing economy in the world) in exchange for providing backdoor access (spying).
Source: ZDNet
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