Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say

Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government, sources say

The elusive hacking group Careto was never publicly linked to a specific government, but TechCrunch has learned researchers concluded privately that the Spanish government was behind the group.

A group of computer spies known as Careto (or The Mask), discovered more than a decade ago by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, may have been a covert operation for the Spanish government. This is revealed by internal sources at the same company, cited by the TechCrunch portal, who say that investigators concluded that this group operated on the orders of Spanish institutions. The group was first detected in 2014, after Kaspersky identifi…