If you click on the first link in the article, you end up at Kaspersky's article which states, in the first paragraph:
> This includes an extremely sophisticated malware, a rootkit, a bootkit, Mac OS X and Linux versions and possibly versions for Android and iOS (iPad/iPhone).
Infecting more machines (to obscure the targets of interest) is a trade-off of course, and is not necessarily valid in the general case. The more machines you infect, the more chances of being discovered.
> The primary targets are government institutions, diplomatic offices and embassies, energy, oil and gas companies, research organizations and activists.
Ah pesky activists.
Intelligence agencies: support domestic economic advantage, suppress domestic political dissent, and defend against nation security threats. That seems to be order of priorities based on all these leaks.
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http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208216078/The_Careto_Mask_...
That securelist.com link is seriously slow so http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5gWQNie...
> This includes an extremely sophisticated malware, a rootkit, a bootkit, Mac OS X and Linux versions and possibly versions for Android and iOS (iPad/iPhone).
http://spoil-films-livres.over-blog.com/article-l-homme-aux-...
If you use Chrome you can click a button at the top to translate it. To read the spoiler text, just select the blue boxes to make them readable.
Must... not... make... luchador joke...
Ah pesky activists.
Intelligence agencies: support domestic economic advantage, suppress domestic political dissent, and defend against nation security threats. That seems to be order of priorities based on all these leaks.