Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show
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#2I take this claim with a pinch of salt. It's a neat idea: exploit IE to install a sniffer that picks up Gmail passwords etc. on the local network, but the only "ultra sophisticated" bit of this I can tell is that the hackers did a really good job of covering their tracks.
The article mentions that your average cybercriminal is lazy, and I can believe that - you're only going to put as much time in to an attack that you're going to get out in financial reward. But if a commercial hack was going to bring about the same financial-level of reward, I bet the cybercriminals wouldn't be sloppy.
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#3I take this claim with a pinch of salt. It's a neat idea: exploit IE to install a sniffer that picks up Gmail passwords etc. on the local network, but the only "ultra sophisticated" bit of this I can tell is that the hackers did a really good job of covering their tracks. The article mentions that your average cybercriminal is lazy, and I can believe that - you're only going to put as much time in to an attack that y…
I had a similar train of thought, but in a slightly causality ordering:
Places like google have a high potential for a high payout, and they know it. Therefore the cybersecurity is higher, requiring a better caliber of criminal.
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#4This was ultra sophisticated, they used several layers of multi-encrypted malware to tunnel out and create reverse control channels. Not to mention used a 0day IE bug to install the malware in various targeted companies. This was gov sponsered...
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#5This was ultra sophisticated, they used several layers of multi-encrypted malware to tunnel out and create reverse control channels. Not to mention used a 0day IE bug to install the malware in various targeted companies. This was gov sponsered...
And a team from the People's Liberation Army's signals intelligence branch will find themselves in jail soon for embarrassing the government...
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#6I find the fact that Adobe got hacked by a pdf vulnerability kinda funny.
Re: Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show
#7I take this claim with a pinch of salt. It's a neat idea: exploit IE to install a sniffer that picks up Gmail passwords etc. on the local network, but the only "ultra sophisticated" bit of this I can tell is that the hackers did a really good job of covering their tracks. The article mentions that your average cybercriminal is lazy, and I can believe that - you're only going to put as much time in to an attack that y…
I had a similar train of thought, but in a slightly causality ordering: Places like google have a high potential for a high payout, and they know it. Therefore the cybersecurity is higher, requiring a better caliber of criminal.
"Although the initial attack occurred when company employees visited a malicious web site, Alperovitch said researchers are still trying to determine if this occurred via a URL sent to employees via e-mail or instant messaging or some other method, such as Facebook or other social networking sites."
It still needed an employee to make the usual "install the dancing pigs"-style gaff while using IE6.
Also: Employees using IE6, inside Google, in 2010. Why weren't they using Chrome?
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#8I take this claim with a pinch of salt. It's a neat idea: exploit IE to install a sniffer that picks up Gmail passwords etc. on the local network, but the only "ultra sophisticated" bit of this I can tell is that the hackers did a really good job of covering their tracks. The article mentions that your average cybercriminal is lazy, and I can believe that - you're only going to put as much time in to an attack that y…
True, it may not have been as ultra-sophisticated as the article lets on, but the fact that there would be no obvious reason to pursue the attack on 34 different companies seems to belie the commercial-hack theory.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a similar train of thought, but in a slightly causality ordering: Places like google have a high potential for a high payout, and they know it. Therefore the cybersecurity is higher, requiring a better caliber of criminal.
"Although the initial attack occurred when company employees visited a malicious web site, Alperovitch said researchers are still trying to determine if this occurred via a URL sent to employees via e-mail or instant messaging or some other method, such as Facebook or other social networking sites." It still needed an employee to make the usual "install the dancing pigs"-style gaff while using IE6. Also: Employees us…
Also: Employees using IE6, inside Google, in 2010. Why weren't they using Chrome?
I guess they were testing something in IE6. Perhaps one of their own sites. Perhaps how some other site renders in it compared to Chrome. Who knows.
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#10My thought while reading this: "There's someone at Google running IE?"