Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
When firewalls fail to thwart cyberattacks, former Israeli spies are coming to the rescue. Their job: Befriend hackers to find out about attacks before they even happen. Bigger, better-known cybersecurity firms, like Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab ZAO and IntelCorp.’s Intel Security Group, aren’t providing these services, spokesmen for the two firms say. Black Cube and its competitors say they are offering a way to gauge vulnerabilities by making friends with potential enemies, before an attack. The biggest challenge, executives in the business say, is building enough credibility to be invited into a hacking network’s circle of trust. Group-IB, for instance, has its undercover employees buy software that could be potentially used to commit cybercrime to build street cred online. The company says clients include Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank, NovartisAG, Microsoft Corp. and Russian bank Sberbank OAO. Novartis said it worked with Group-IB in the past but was no longer a client. Microsoft and Citigroup declined to comment, and Sberbank was unavailable for comment. This year, Group-IB employees posed as hackers to gain access to a botnet—a network of infected computers that can be controlled remotely. This botnet, which was aimed at breaking into banks, had infected some of Group-IB’s clients. On a […]
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