Chinese Cyber Attack, Malware cocktails and then the bad news : Homeland Security’s cyber defense update, Cyber Storm I and Cyber Storm II. Is it enough?
Chinese Cyber Attack
If you thought email threats were a pain, that’s nothing — welcome to the brave new world of booby-trapped web pages — be on the alert for more cyberattacks originating from the web than from email.
Joris Evers CNET News interviews Trend Micro’s Raimund Genes about the latest net-borne danger to the computing world.
The attack was first spotted on 12 March. As security firms unraveled the attack, it became clear that a single entity is likely to be behind the attack, since the malicious code on all these pages came from the same server in China.
As of today, most of the 10,000 pages that were compromised have already been cleaned up. Read more.
Malware cocktails
In Wednesday morning’s attack, McAfee Avert Labs detected over 10,000 web pages rigged to hijack web surfers’ PCs. The web pages had been modified with code redirecting visitors to another website “laden with a malware cocktail” that attempted to break into the users’ PCs.
And, if there’s one overwhelming reason not to participate in online gaming or gambling,
it’s the fact that cybercrime rings have increasingly been targeting online gamers as items in virtual worlds, characters in games now have monetary value in the physical world. This all according to McAfee as reported by news.zdnet.co.uk
And now for the bad news
In past Congressional testimony, Homeland Security’s Under Secretary Robert Jamison has addressed threats from nation-states like China and also organized crime, and terrorism. In this March 14th DHS Pen-and-Pad Briefing you’ll learn about Cyber Storm I and Cyber Storm II — DHS efforts in progress to protect the internet infrastructure and U.S. security interests from a dramatically increasing volume of sophisticated cyber attacks from outside the country.
Full report is on the Homeland Security website: www.dhs.gov
