Security News

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 ...

White House, State Department Counted Among CozyDuke APT Victims (Threatpost)
2015-04-22 19:09

A data-mining advanced persistent threat hit a handful of high profile targets last year, including the White House’s computer network.

White House cyber attackers linked to OnionDuke APT actor (Help Net Security)
2015-04-22 11:55

It's widely believed that the October 2014 breaches of US State Department and White House computer systems have been executed by Russian hackers. Kaspersky Lab researchers have recently shared more d...

Russian APT group actively exploiting Flash, Windows 0-day flaws (Help Net Security)
2015-04-20 11:13

APT28, believed to consist of Russian hackers, has been spotted wielding two zero-day exploits in the latest targeted attack aimed at an "international government entity in an industry vertical that a...

Week in review: APT wars, 18-year-old bug endangers Windows users, and main sources of data breaches (Help Net Security)
2015-04-20 05:00

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Simda botnet taken down in global operation The Simda botnet, believed to have infected more than 770,000 computers ...