OREANDA-NEWS. June 01, 2015. Yet another reminder that even small companies aren't immune from cyber espionage hacks: researchers have discovered an aggressive attack campaign against SMBs around the globe that appears to be targeting the chemical, nanotechnology, education, agriculture, media, and construction sectors for intelligence purposes.

Kaspersky Lab researchers today gave details about the newly discovered Grabit malware and its attack campaign that has been underway since February of this year and remains active. The cyber espionage attack has stolen some 10,000 files from victims mostly in Thailand, India, and the US; but Kaspersky has seen victims in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Israel, Canada, France, Austria, Sri Lanka, Chile, and Belgium.

The attackers appear to be after everything from credentials to system information. "Based on our research, we’ve seen that credentials is not the main focus and that Grabit collects internal information about the system – firewall, anti-virus installed, machine name, internal/external IPs, keylog, screenshots, machine time [and] language and more," says Ido Naor, senior security researcher for Kaspersky Lab's Global Research & Analysis Team.