A global hacking operation is targeting government departments, defence, telecoms and other high tech organisations around the world in what appears to be the first stage of a cyber espionage campaign. Dubbed Operation Sharpshooter by researchers at McAfee, the new campaign has only been active for a matter of weeks, but hit 87 organisations in 24 countries during October and November alone, with the aim of the operation seemingly intelligence gathering.

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