Iconix Whitepaper – Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats
Today Iconix released a whitepaper entitled, “Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats.” As the whitepaper describes, the United States, its allies and its industries are engaged in cyber warfare. A leaked secret State Department cable describes a cyberwarfare attack: Since late 2002, USG organizations have been targeted with social-engineering online attacks by BC [Byzantine Condor] actors. … BC actors typically gain initial access with the use of highly targeted socially engineered e-mail messages, which fool recipients into inadvertently compromising their systems [spear-phishing]. The intruders then install malware such as customized keystroke-logging software and command-and-control (C&C) utilities onto the compromised systems and exfiltrate [...]