According to Ellyne Phneah‘s piece at ZDNet, Rob Rachwald, senior director of research at FireEye observed that the security industry today is keen on attributing malware to a specific region or group in an effort to assign blame. [H]e pointed out attribution to malware was not key in combating cybercrime because it did little to […]
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Indian Firm Hacks Back…in 2007!
An interesting use of force, compromising the attacker’s machine, but for the purposes of tracking instead of outright disruption/destruction. “In 2007, the IT team of a Chennai-based drug maker detected heavy traffic on servers connected to its research lab. The company was developing an anti-asthma molecule, and it suspected that a hacker was stealing the […]