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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)

Audit Viewer: Malware Rating Index Undocumented Features and Caveats

Written by Peter Silberman

Hopefully everyone has had a few weeks to recover from the M-Trends kickoff party in St. Louis and everyone has also had a chance to read the M-Trends report! I hope everyone enjoyed the talk I gave at DOD Cyber Crime Conference. Read the rest

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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)