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DoD Cyber Crime Conference Presentation: Recipes for Remediation

Written by Jim Aldridge

Wendi Rafferty and I presented at the DoD Cyber Crime conference in Atlanta, GA. Our presentation, “Recipes for Remediation: Key Ingredients for Building a More Resilient Security Program,” has been posted to the MANDIANT Archive Presentations page here.

During our presentation we covered the lifecycle common to many Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks and then outlined several case studies to illustrate countermeasures organizations have successfully deployed to combat the APT.  The following items were key points we covered during the workshop:

1.       “This can happen to you!” The time to begin preparing for these activities is now, prior to an incident. Read the rest

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. 07 Feb 12 | The Whiteboard | Comments (0)

Fresh Prints of Mal-Ware: Choose Your Own Adventure!

Written by Christopher Glyer

Kyle Dempsey and I have been busy putting together content for the upcoming Fresh Prints webinar, “Choose Your Own Adventure,” being held this Thursday, April 15th at 2PM EDT. If you thought of the Choose Your Own Adventure® book series when you saw the title, you understand where we’re going with this. Read the rest

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. 14 Apr 10 | The Suite Spot | Comments (0)

Blackhat Europe, State Of Malware: Family Ties

Written by Peter Silberman

Ero and I will be in Barcelona presenting at Blackhat Europe 2010. Our talk is called State of
Malware: Family Ties. This talk focuses on malware families.  We thought about interesting research we could do in the same vein as our last talk, State of Malware: Explosion of the Axis of Evil. Read the rest

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. 12 Apr 10 | The Whiteboard | Comment (1)

State of the Hack Webinar – Thursday March 11th

Written by Christopher Glyer

Michael J. Graven and I will be presenting MANDIANT’s State of the Hack webinar titled “Silent But Deadly” this Thursday, March 11th at 2PM EST.

I’ve had the opportunity to lead a number of MANDIANT’s APT investigations recently, and am looking forward to sharing some of my experiences with our audience. Read the rest

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. 09 Mar 10 | The Whiteboard | Comments (0)

M-Trends: Advanced Persistent Threat Malware

Written by Wendi Rafferty

There are a lot of reports in the news about the types of malware being utilized by the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attackers.  Our upcoming release of M-Trends will go into great detail about the types of malware, its capabilities, and how the attackers leverage a variety of malware throughout a breadth of victim organizations to accomplish very specific goals.   Over the next week, the MANDIANT blog will feature excerpts from our upcoming M-Trends report that illustrate just how difficult it is to identify APT techniques. Read the rest

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. 15 Jan 10 | The Suite Spot | Comments (0)

M-Trends: The Advance of the Persistent Threat

Written by Wendi Rafferty

The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is an advanced persistent reality!   It’s all over the news.  Everyone seems to be either talking about it or affected by it.  MANDIANT defines the APT as a group of sophisticated, persistent, and coordinated attackers that have been systematically compromising U.S. Read the rest

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. 14 Jan 10 | The Suite Spot | Comments (0)
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