What is the biggest threat to your company’s network? Look in the mirror. A huge percentage of recent high profile attacks, including those perpetrated on Epsilon, RSA, the Oak Ridge Laboratories in Tennessee, and the Gmail accounts of government officials—not to mention Operation SHADY Rat—are suspected to be based on spearphishing, a devious social engineering Read more…
Tags: Shady RAT, Spearphishing
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
As several of our contributors mentioned in our July #SecChat, the only way to learn is to stay current on the latest trends in cyber security. In honor of those suggestions, this week we are introducing a new segment: Friday Security Highlights. Each Friday, we’ll be wrapping up some of the week’s most talked, tweeted Read more…
Tags: Black Hat, Cofer Black, Dave Marcus, DefCon, Dmitri Alperovitch, Friday Security Highlights, Shady RAT
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