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Tracking Email Malware Trojan.MyAgent
At FireEye we have been tracking a particular piece of malware we call Trojan.MyAgent for some time now. The malware is currently using email as its primary vector of propagation. From looking at the...
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Possible Update to the Blackhole Exploit Toolkit
Pretty much everyone is aware of the BlackHole toolkit. We previously wrote a blog that compared the prevalence of various toolkits. At FireEye, we trigger on thousands of BlackHole events every day...
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Spear Phishing In Action
Recently, while monitoring an infected system we uncovered activity that showed a good example of attackers selectively emailing malware to a specific group (in this case a country). After conducting...
View ArticleDefining Advanced Malware is as Difficult as Preventing It (Part 1 of 2)
Advanced targeted attacks—or the ubiquitous advanced persistent threat (APT), if you prefer—have captured the attention of the security industry because of their clandestine and sinister nature....
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“Be the Change.” Test Methodologies for Advanced Threat Prevention Products
Organizations are under assault by a new generation of cyber attacks that easily evade traditional defenses. These coordinated campaigns are targeted. They are stealthy. And they are persistent. Many...
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Clandestine Fox, Part Deux
We reported at the end of April and the beginning of May on an APT threat group leveraging a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer via phishing email attacks. While Microsoft quickly released a...
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Darwin’s Favorite APT Group
Introduction The attackers referred to as APT12 (also known as IXESHE, DynCalc, and DNSCALC) recently started a new campaign targeting organizations in Japan and Taiwan. APT12 is believed to be a cyber...
View ArticleData Theft in Aisle 9: A FireEye Look at Threats to Retailers
While cybercriminals continue to target the payment card and banking information of individual users, they seem increasingly aware that compromising retailers is more lucrative. Targeting retailers is...
View ArticleWhen POS Comes to Shove
In today’s blog post, FireEye examines the threats posed to retailers by crimeware, Point-of-Sale (POS) malware, and other threats. It is certainly a topic that is on the mind of many organizations and...
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