Most new articles on high profile cyberattacks call these attacks sophisticated, but are they really? At the RSA 2015 conference a few days ago, researchers Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes, wrote ‘the Irari rules for declaring a cyberattack sophisticated’. The summary article can be found here, and the conference slide pack here. The main message is … Continue reading What makes malware “sophisticated”?
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Kill chain models
It has been 4 years now since Lockheed Martin released their "Cyber Kill Chain" paper, which describes the stages that the perpetrator of an advanced persistent threat (APT) takes. This kind of attack sequencing is not new, the American military and other government forces have used similar models to show the stages of a terrorist … Continue reading Kill chain models
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