Security News

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...

Defend your network from APTs that exploit DNS (Help Net Security)
2015-05-11 09:00

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are designed to spread, morph and hide within IT infrastructure to perpetrate a long term attack, posing a significant threat to the security of corporate data. From...

APTs: The fine balance of control and monitoring (Help Net Security)
2015-05-07 07:00

Security is not about winning the war. It is more like insurance, it's about how we handle risks. In order to successfully handle the risk of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) we need to focus on the...

Cyphort combines APT detection with lateral movement (Help Net Security)
2015-04-23 15:22

At RSA Conference 2015, Cyphort announced the availability of Cyphort Advanced Threat Defense Platform 3.3, which includes malware lateral movement detection, the ability to combine advanced targeted ...