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In the first part of this article we told you about targeted attacks and about how cybercriminals penetrate corporate networks, attacking the computers of employees who use their desktops for social networking and other cyber-skiving. Along with targeted attacks there are other threats. Intentionally or by chance employees may be guilty of disclosing confidential data […]

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Yesterday, Symantec published details about a new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack carried out by a gang dubbed “DarkSeoul” against South Korean websites. We identified their previous attacks against South Korea, including the devastating Jokra attacks in March 2013 that wiped numerous computer hard drives at South Korean banks and television broadcasters. As a result of […]

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In a McAfee Labs blog by my colleague Vikas Taneja last month, he discussed high-level functioning in the malware Travnet. Since then we have continued to analyze different samples and now classify Travnet as a botnet rather than a Trojan because of the presence of control code, and the malware’s ability to wait for further […]

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