Detecting Advanced Persistent Threat with Network Traffic Analysis

A high degree of stealthiness over a prolonged duration of operation in order to do a successful cyber attack can be defined as Advanced Persistent Threat. The attack objectives therefore typically extend beyond immediate financial gain, and compromised systems continue to be of service even afte...

Valid Adobe Certificate Used to Sign Malicious Utilities Common in Targeted Attacks

Adobe announced today it was the victim of an APT-style attack after two malicious utilities commonly used in targeted attacks for privilege escalation and pivoting within a network were discovered signed by a valid Adobe digital certificate. Adobe said it will revoke the certificate next week...

Operation Aurora - Other Zero-Day Attacks targeting finance and Energy

The infamous Aurora Trojan horse is just one of many attacks launched by the same group of malware authors over the past three years, according to researchers at Symantec. Security researchers with Symantec have issued a report outlining the techniques used by the so-called "Edgewood" hacking...

Hijacking Servers Remotely with Hikit advanced persistent threat

Security researchers have revealed the existence of an advanced persistent threat that has been making the rounds since April 2011. Backdoor.Hikit is a dangerous backdoor Trojan that will damage infected system and files. Usually, Backdoor. Hikit will open backdoor to allow remote attackers to...

Poll Finds Security Practitioners Falsely Believe They're Protected Against APTs

If a recent poll of 1,000 security professionals is any indication, there remains a significant learning gap in understanding advanced persistent threats – and therefore building a strong defense to resist them. The survey conducted by FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab showed nearly 60 percent o...

IXESHE Malware Avoids Easy Detection to Remain a Persistent Threat

Trend Micro today issued a report on an advanced persistent threat that uses stealthy data-stealing malware called IXESHE “i-sushi” to infect machines. So far it’s hit East Asian governments, Taiwanese electronics manufacturers and German telecommunications firms operating across Asia. Though the...

DHS To Critical Infrastructure Owners: Hold On To Data After Cyber Attack

The Department of Homeland Security Is Offering Organizations That Use Industrial Control Systems advice or mitigating the effects of cyber attacks. Among the agency’s recommendations: hold on to data from infected systems and prevent enemies from moving within your organization. DHS’s Industrial...

E-mail Trends Show Hackers Working Weekends Less and Less

While there are an increasing number of weekends catered to hacking, even hackers need a day off – and it shouldn’t surprise many that increasingly, that day is usually Sunday. Network security company FireEye reviewed statistics on email-based attacks for 2012 that suggest that Sunday has slowed...

Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network

Cyber Attack on The Iranian Oil Ministry's Computer Network The Iranian oil ministry's computer network came under attack from hackers and a computer virus, prompting the Islamic Republic to disconnect the country's main oil export terminal from the internet as a preventative measure, a...

RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect

Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the "Year of the Hack" or "Epic Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for...

Web App Pentesting - PenTest Magazine

Web App Pentesting - Pentest Magazine The significance of HTTP and the Web for Advanced Persistent Threats Web Application Security and Penetration Testing Developers are form Wenus, Application Security guys from Mars Pulling legs of Arachni XSS BeeF Metaspolit Exploitation Cross-site request...

760+ Organizations, Including Google, Facebook, Targeted by RSA Attack

More than 760 organizations, 20 percent of them Fortune 100 companies, may have been compromised by RSA’s now infamous data breach in March, 2011, according to a report on Krebsonsecurity. Facebook, Google and Cisco Systems are just a few of the many organizations who were targets of malware usin...

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution McAfee previewed its DeepSAFE hardware-assisted security technology for proactively detecting and preventing stealthy advanced persistent threats APTs and malware. The technology, which was co-developed with Intel, sits below the OS, providing the...

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution

McAfee DeepSAFE - Anti-rootkit Security Solution McAfee previewed its DeepSAFE hardware-assisted security technology for proactively detecting and preventing stealthy advanced persistent threats APTs and malware. The technology, which was co-developed with Intel, sits below the OS, providing the...

Advanced Threats Are Not All the APT

By B.K. DeLong We have heard variations on the argument that within the context of information security, the “advanced persistent threat” APT is not really all that advanced or new, that it is being made too big a deal of or FUD and that it is no more than marketing hype though more of an effort...

Report: L3 Warns Employees Of Attacks Using Compromised SecurID Tokens

Executives at U.S. defense contractor L-3 Communications warned employees in April about an attempt by unknown assailants to compromise the company’s network using forged SECURID tokens from RSA. The report, if accurate would be the second attack on a leading defense contractor with links back to...

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hacked !

A top United States federal lab was the victim of a "silent" cyberattack earlier this month, news outlets are reporting The Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee was the victim, according to Nextgov.com. The lab is an energy department laboratory that studies nuclear fusion, supercomputing,...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Cuts Off Internet, E-mail After Attack

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a science and technology complex that houses one of the world’s fastest computers, was forced to suspend Internet access and e-mail capabilities for employees on Friday in response to what has been described as a targeted phishing attack, according to...

Inside Story : How RSA was got hacked !

Inside Story : How RSA was got hacked ! The hack last month at RSA Security has been shrouded in mystery. How did a hacker manage to infiltrate one of the world's top computer-security companies? And could the data that was stolen be used to impair its SecurID products, which are used by 40 milli...