Gauss banking-espionage malware against Lebanese banks
Gauss, a nation-state cyber-surveillance toolkit related to Flame and Stuxnet, infected over 2,500 systems — most heavily in Lebanon — and was the first publicly known state-sponsored malware engineered to steal online-banking credentials from specific Lebanese banks.
- Victim
- Lebanese banks (Bank of Beirut, Byblos Bank, Fransabank, BlomBank, Credit Libanais) and their customers