Security News

Sophisticated, successful Morpho APT group is after corporate data (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 15:00

Two reports published on Wednesday by Symantec and Kaspersky Lab detail the recent attacks executed by an unusual APT group they have dubbed Morpho and Wild Neutron. The group was first spotted in ...

DDoS attacks now resemble APTs (Help Net Security)
2015-06-11 07:12

DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, signature-based defense systems, accord...

New APT Duqu 2.0 Hits High-Value Victims, Including Kaspersky Lab (Threatpost)
2015-06-10 12:05

The Duqu attackers, who are considered by researchers to be at the top of the food chain of APT groups and are responsible for attacking certificate authorities and perhaps spying on Iran’s...

APT Group Embeds Command and Control Data on TechNet Pages (Threatpost)
2015-05-18 19:03

The so-called Deputy Dog APT group has surfaced again with a means of keeping its command and control servers under wraps that involves Microsoft’s TechNet online resources.

APT group's malware retrieved C&C IP addresses from Microsoft's TechNet portal (Help Net Security)
2015-05-14 13:49

A China-based APT group has been using Microsoft’s TechNet web portal to host encoded Command and Control IP addresses for its BLACKCOFFEE malware, FireEye researchers have revealed. "While other g...