Security research firm, Trend Micro has said that it has traced a sophisticated cyberspy network targeting victims in Russia, back to servers in the US and UK.

Trend Micro identified the so called Lurid attacks that hit 47 victims including diplomatic missions, government ministries, space-related government agencies and other companies and research institutions in 61 different countries. However, most of those targeted in the attacks were in Russia, Kazakhstan and Vietnam.

Cyber criminals regularly attack western targets, human rights activists and others. These several times these attacks have been blamed on China, who denies charges saying it is victim of the menace and not the perpetrator. In the least detection, Trend Micro found common servers running the attack were located in the UK and US.

The attack relies on the Lurid Downloader or Enfal Trojans, a toold that has been used before against Western victims and the Tibetan community. The attackers area targeting victims using either infected Adobe files or .RAR archive files containing Trojan code.

Trend Micro researcher Nart Villeneuve said, "Although our research didn't reveal precisely which data was being targeted by the attackers, we were able to determine that, in some cases, they attempted to steal specific documents and spreadsheets."