BEIRUT: Over the past 11 months, eight sophisticated digital virus strands have targeted computers across Lebanon. The viruses are surreptitiously infiltrating the operating systems, mining the computers’ data for account information and then sending the data to five command and control servers around the world. The attack – the most sophisticated virus ever to be unleashed on the country and likely sponsored by a nation-state – pulls Lebanon into the cross hairs of a cyber-espionage battle waged over computers in the Middle East in the past several years. [Link]