A rookie/mentor focused track of talks, that’s all it took, something so inviting to up-and-comers from universities, governments and corporations within the computer security industry that secured BSidesLondon 2013 as a “must attend” Infosec conference for 2014 and beyond.
Hasn’t This Been Done Before?
It seems so easy, I mean there has to have been this type …
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By Wes Hurd (Cyber Threat Analyst)
When we think of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), we often associate APT intrusion vectors with spearphishing email messages that contain either a malicious attachment or link to a malicious website location. Many enterprise security teams often overlook, or fail to consider, how online profiles within social networking sites (SNS) can …
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At Cyber Squared, we understand that many targeted, government sponsored or sanctioned attacks can be directly tied to current geopolitical events. Keeping the recent instability of the Korean Peninsula in mind, and the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has a vested interest in Korean affairs, we have kept …
Read MoreThe RSA conference this year was abuzz with talk of threat intelligence and its usage in detecting and protecting against more advanced threats. There was re-branding of existing products and the entrance of new products, all of which claimed to support some type of “intelligence” capability. As I walked around it struck me …
Read MoreToday Symantec reported a targeted attack that used the Mandiant APT1 report as bait for a spearphishing attack. Brandon Dixon at 9b+ followed up with the analysis of “Mandiant_APT2_Report.pdf” and identified the command and control infrastructure as itsec.eicp[.]net, reminding us that same infrastructure was also used to target OSX users in the 5 December …
Read MoreTwo weeks ago the New York Times (NYT), Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Dow Jones (DJ) and Washington Post (WP) all reported being targeted and exploited by Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. In most cases, the compromises had reportedly been going on for quite some time and were severe enough that the …
Read MoreBloomberg ran a Cyber Espionage piece called, “Hackers Linked To China’s Army Seen from EU to D.C” on July 26 that featured information derived from Cyber Squared’s Project Enlightenment. In response to the article, Bloomberg TV’s “First Up” program hosted a live interview with me …
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In blogs past, we have discussed the importance of Cyber Security, and how it is one of the most important pieces of the Information Assurance puzzle. One of the greatest problems that we continue to face as Network Defenders and Information Assurance professionals is human error. We spend millions …
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Burning Down the House for Fun and Profit
In October of 1962, during the buildup to the Cuban Missile Crisis, a debate between Adlai Stevenson and Valerian Alexandrovich Zorin at the United Nations Security Council, revealed how far the U.S. was willing to go to produce evidence that the Soviet Union was indeed stockpiling tactical nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in North …
February 21, 2013 Tags: Chinese Economic Espionage, Comment Group, MUCD 61398
Category: APT, Cyber Espionage, In the News Comments Off