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Is your enterprise protected from advanced persistent threats?

Malware for sale! Botnets for hire!

It appears anything goes these days in the increasingly monetized world of cybercrime.

'"Simplistic" viruses no longer affect just one or two machines -- hackers now threaten the entire enterprise network. The evasion techniques used by today's innovative malware are demonstrated by adversaries known as advanced persistent threats (APTs), which are much more complex and, therefore, harder to detect and eradicate. Even with traditional anti-malware controls, the risks are still present, especially during targeted attacks.

Recently, I worked on a project that involved an APT attack on a highly visible organization that is key to the well-being of the U.S. The compromise had been detected a couple of years earlier and was assumed to have been cleaned up. Instead, we found tens of thousands of Windows-based computers being controlled by command-and-control servers with IP addresses originating

in a not-so-friendly country. It was ugly

is deployed and spread through Windows (and other)

Figure 1: APT attack process (click to enlarge)

All of these steps can take place over a very short time, so organizations can go from a network

Attackers evade further detection and takedowns by using "disposable" command-and-control

The APT project revealed just how critical team communications can be -- especially during and incident-response plan , the organization will continually struggle to clean up

If IT administrators, security and forensics teams don't truly understand the essence of this eradication and recovery processes .

Perhaps it's time to step back and think about this whole APT thing. Start by reevaluating the

Regardless of the cause of these attacks, one thing is for sure -- the detect and react mode of operation just isn't cutting it. And since there are no simple answers to this new threat,

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