Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats
Will Gragido, John Pirc
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 1597496138
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Cybercrime and Espionage provides a wealth of knowledge related to the realities seen in the execution of advanced attacks, their success from the perspective of exploitation and their presence within all industry. This book will educate you on realities of advanced, next generation threats, which take form in a variety ways. The authors, working in conjunction with strategic technology partners have key insights into the realm of what these new threats, dubbed “Subversive Multi-Vector Threats” or ‘SMT’s. Whether the goal is to acquire and subsequently sell intellectual property from one organization to a competitor or the international black markets, to compromise financial data and systems, or undermine the security posture of a nation state by another nation state or sub-national entity, these threats are real and growing at an alarming pace.
- Includes detailed analysis and examples of the threats in addition to related anecdotal information
- Authors’ combined backgrounds of security, military, and intelligence, give you distinct and timely insights
- Presents never-before-published information: identification and analysis of cybercrime and the psychological profiles that accompany them
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logical security. The cybercriminal can assume that a firewall is in place and if the organization has network/host detection systems in place, they are not likely placed in preventive mode, thus making it easier for the cybercriminal to extract data knowing that time to protection of the breach is another way of saying time to mitigate upon detecting a breach. This is common parlance in our space. Out of the six countermeasures that we mentioned above, 2–6 are fairly static terms of deployment
or Web application gaining malicious code and content from a user), but it happens. The malicious code and content are usually collected via a form or a hyperlink that contains malicious content itself. A user will generally click on a link or URL from another Website, an instant message, while visiting Web forums or checking email. Cybercriminals will typically encode the malicious payload of the link to the site in hexadecimal format or some other comparable coding method so that the request
global level and staying connected from a personal perspective. This era presented us with many challenges as the expanding e-commerce, banks, electric and utilities, governments, and military remain online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year, as well as provide the nefarious cyber actors with many targets on which they could attack for financial gain. Additionally, Nation States are regarding the Internet as a national asset and, as we mentioned, are spending upward to a billion
security devices was deployed. This is not to say current security technology is useless, we are just shining the light in areas of the network that are usually dark. Step 1: In this first step of the analysis, we open up NetWitness Investigator and start looking for some data points that we want to perform further analysis on. As you can see in Figure 12.1, there are a lot of places that we can start exploring for leads. A great place to start is looking at geolocation and in this collection we