Proactive Prevention Revisited: 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Inception Framework' Campaigns

In this post we will discuss two recently disclosed cyber espionage campaigns. By strange coincidence, both were independently named after labyrinthian and complicated movies – 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Inception'. With Inception, the campaign's unique complexity was the actual reason for the naming.

The two campaigns share a few elements. Their initial targets are mainly Russian, and both, to a certain degree utilized CloudMe AB's cloud service in...