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Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks - Wezuviy - 04-13-2018
Cyber-espionage groups —also referred to as advanced persistent threats (APTs)— are using hacked routers more and more during their attacks, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab.
"It's not necessarily something new. Not something that just exploded," said Costin Raiu, director of Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky Lab, in a webinar today.
"We've seen a bunch of router attack throughout the years. A very good example is SYNful Knock, a malicious implant for Cisco [routers] that was discovered by FireEye but also threat actors such as Regin and CloudAtlas. Both APTs have been known to have and own proprietary router implants."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyber-espionage-groups-are-increasingly-leveraging-routers-in-their-attacks/
RE: Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks - mothered - 04-14-2018
It's certainly nothing new, In fact far from It. This type of attack Is common practice and has been around for many years to date.
Just reading the article now.
Appreciated.
RE: Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks - Torwaldson - 04-16-2018
i`m just curious why Kaspersky announced it now.
RE: Cyber-Espionage Groups Are Increasingly Leveraging Routers in Their Attacks - mothered - 04-17-2018
(04-16-2018, 05:58 PM)Torwaldson Wrote: i`m just curious why Kaspersky announced it now.
In answer to your question, there's a few keywords of significance that Kaspersky mentioned:
Quote:more and more during their attacks
"more and more" being the operative words. They've probably mentioned the actual Issue In the past but In this Instance, they've simply emphasized It's escalation.