Eugene Kaspersky has weighed in this week on Shady RAT, criticizing McAfee for exposing an operation that attacked a wide range of companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations across 14 countries and numerous sectors of the economy. Among other things, Kaspersky says he doesn’t believe it was a sophisticated attack and that our approach is alarmist. He’s missing Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, attacks, critical infrastructure, intellectual property, Shady RAT
Advanced persistent threats like we’ve seen with Stuxnet and Night Dragon target the manufacturing and process industry, including national critical infrastructure. The industrial revolution started our reliance on automation. However as the industry became more integrated, modular and adaptable to broader industrial processing it also grew more vulnerable and susceptible to attack. Adding further complication Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, critical infrastructure, data breach, McAfee Application Control
Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs have many definitions. In most cases it’s an over used and abused marketing term adopted by point solution security vendors to talk about their ability to stop “bad things.” The term most generally defines an adversary with formidable means, organization, and motivation: they’re on a mission. It is often associated Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, critical infrastructure, Cybercrime, Operation Aurora
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