APTs

Most APAC organisations breached, the rest don’t know they’ve been hit!
Asia essentially has a bull’s eye painted on it, and economic growth is going to make matters worse, writes Benjamin Cher.
SEA servers under threat from China’s Terracotta army: RSA
RSA Research has discovered a commercial VPN, originating in China, which hacks into inadequately protected Windows servers, including those in South-East Asia, and enlists them as server nodes to launch cyber-attacks.
Cyber-espionage groups starting to use Hacking Team exploits: Kaspersky
Cyberespionage groups have started using the tools Milan-based Hacking Team provided to its customers to carry out their own attacks, according to Kaspersky Lab.
The threat landscape runneth over, here’s what we need to do
After having slept, drunk and eaten at the recent RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan (RSAC APJ) in Singapore, Benjamin Cher gathers his thoughts and comes away with some key takeaways.
APT fears lead to boom time for solutions market in APAC: Frost
Frost & Sullivan said its new report on the Asia Pacific APT Solutions Market finds that the market, comprising both on-premises products and cloud-based solutions, earned revenues of US$117.9 million in 2014, and is estimated to reach US$658.7 million in 2019.
Plugging the gaps in today’s threat landscape
There are some common weaknesses in organisations that makes them vulnerable to attacks by APT actors, FireEye CTO Grady Summers told the RSA Conference Asia Pacific & Japan (RSAC APJ) 2015 in Singapore last week.
Asia in the crosshairs of APT attackers: FireEye CTO
It's going to be a ‘fun’ upcoming decade for cybersecurity practitioners in Asia, as the rising wave of attacks and the awareness of them in the region reflect what happened in the United States 10 years ago.
Cybercriminals going back to ‘old school’ techniques: Dell
Cybercriminals still use age-old techniques to exploit users and unpatched software, according to a new report by Dell Security
State-sponsored group that spied on Malaysia for 10 years
The report by FireEye that a sophisticated group called APT30 – suspected to be a China state-sponsored group – has been spying on Malaysia and other Asean countries for 10 years now should come as no surprise, writes Keith Rozario.
Cybercriminals adopting new techniques, assaults: Trend Micro
In 2014, and increasingly moving forward into 2015, corporate data is now a huge gold-mine that cybercriminals are looking to harvest, according to Trend Micro Inc’s Targeted Attack Trends 2014 Annual Report.
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