Update on May 2 Adobe has confirmed this vulnerability and has scheduled a patch release for May 14. Looking back this year’s RSA Conference, you might have the feeling that the current threat landscape is primarily a series of advanced attacks. This concept includes well-known advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day vulnerability exploits. To Read more…
Tags: 0 day vulnerability, Adobe Reader, Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, detection, email tracking service, exploit, PDF, tracking usage, Zero-Day
‘Nation-state sponsored cyber attacks’ – A powerful statement, and one that represented the majority of recent headlines in press articles about the Gauss malware. With the targeted nature of the attack, and its complexity cited as examples to support ‘Gauss-es’ of the attribution. Whilst the speculation makes for excellent media stories and fuels alcohol induced Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, APTs, cyber attacks, DLP, firewall, Flame, Gauss, Information Security, IPS, McAfee Security, Night Dragon, security
A few weeks ago, Iran reported intensified cyberattacks on its energy sector that they observed as a direct continuation of the Stuxnet and Duqu attacks. Over the weekend, the IR Cert (Iran’s emergency response team) published a new report that describes this attack as Flame and/or Flamer. Some other news agencies also called the attack Read more…
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, antivirus, APT, Cybercrime, cyberespionage, cyberwarfare, espionage, global threat intelligence, malware, McAfee Labs, targeted attack
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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