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Home   »   lateral movement

PlugX RAT With “Time Bomb” Abuses Dropbox for Command-and-Control Settings

  • Posted on:June 25, 2014 at 6:05 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Maersk Menrige (Threats Analyst)
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Monitoring network traffic is one of the means for IT administrators to determine if there is an ongoing targeted attack in the network.  Remote access tools or RATs, commonly seen in targeted attack campaigns, are employed to establish command-and-control (C&C) communications.  Although the network traffic of these RATs, such as Gh0st, PoisonIvy, Hupigon, and PlugX, among…

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Tags: lateral movementplugXtargeted attacksthreat intelligence

ARP Spoofing and Lateral Movement

  • Posted on:September 27, 2013 at 3:08 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Spencer Hsieh (Threat Researcher)
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In targeted attacks, during the lateral movement stage attacks try to gain access to other computers on the same local area network (LAN). One useful tool to achieve this is ARP spoofing, which can be used to carry out a variety of attacks to steal information as well as plant backdoors on other machines. We…

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Tags: APTARP spoofinglateral movementtargeted attacks

Building Threat Intelligence to Detect APTs in Lateral Movement

  • Posted on:July 11, 2013 at 12:13 pm
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Spencer Hsieh (Threat Researcher)
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A later stage of  advanced persistent threats (APT) attacks is the  “lateral movement” stage, where attackers typically use legitimate computer features to move within the network undetected. This takes place after the initial breach and the establishment of command-and-control links back to the attacker. We earlier discussed the steps in an APT attack in the…

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Tags: APTinformation theftintrusionlateral movementreconnaissanceTargeted Attack

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