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
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, M-Trends
Join us for The Fresh Prints of Mal-Ware Webinar Series: Explosion of the Axis of Evil!
Written by Peter Silberman
In September I had the chance to speak at Source Barcelona with Ero Carrera. We gave a talk entitled State Of Malware: Explosion of the Axis of Evil. Both Ero and I really enjoyed giving this talk and the content is so new, we’ve decided to give it again as a free webinar on Nov 5th at 2pm. Read the rest
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, Ero Carrera, Fresh Prints of Mal-Ware, MANDIANT, virus total
State Of Malware: Explosion of the Axis of Evil, slides etc
Written by Peter Silberman
Last week Ero Carrera and I spoke at Source Barcelona. As I mentioned previously on this blog we were both very excited to give this talk. The talk went very well! We could not have asked for a better audience. Read the rest
Tags: APT, malware, MANDIANT, source, source barcelona, virus total
Source Barcelona: State Of Malware: Explosion of the Axis of Evil
Written by Peter Silberman
On Tuesday, September 22nd Ero Carrera and I will be giving a talk at Source Barcelona entitled State Of Malware: Explosion of the Axis of Evil. I am very excited to give this talk for a number of reasons. First, I’ve only heard amazing things about the Source conference. Read the rest
Tags: Advanced Persistent Threat, APT, source bareclona, virus total
MANDIANT Breaking News Analysis: Disruption in the Pacific Rim
Written by MANDIANT
Recent hack attacks denying access to a number of South Korean and U.S. government agency web sites and financial institution web sites, provide an opportunity to examine the fundamental differences between disruptive, attention-grabbing attacks and state-sponsored cyber attacks.
In our always-on, breaking news culture, jumping the gun on the intent and origins of an attack can put geopolitical relationships at risk. Read the rest
Flex your Memory Forensic skills at CEIC!!!
Written by Peter Silberman
MANDIANT will be at this year’s Computer Enterprise Investigation Conference (CEIC). I will be there as well running a contest for incident responders. The contest is designed to test your ability to identify malware in memory. We have all heard of the Advanced Persistent Threat, we know the acronym APT. If you’re not familiar with APT or want to become more familiar check out https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/schedule/display.do?udc=1s8rbdxuuzuf7. Read the rest
Tags: APT, Audit Viewer, Encase, malware analysis

