I was somewhat unnerved when I saw the evidence for our #3M-Trend this year: the use of publicly available malware in targeted attacks is increasing. After all, when I first started learning about the Advanced … View full post on National Cyber Security
M-Trends #2: Everything Old is New Again – Targeted Attackers Using Passive Backdoors to Evade Networks
Earlier this week, I talked about malware threats. Today, we’ll address a new trend. Turns out the perpetrators of targeted attacks are pragmatic, and are happy to borrow techniques that are even a decade old. Trend #2 in M-Trends: An Evolving Threat is titled “Everything Old Is New Again,” and…