Kill Chain - In today’s wildly unpredictable threat landscape, the modern enterprise should be familiar with the cyber kill chain concept. A cyber kill chain describes the various stages of a cyberattack pertaining to network security. Lockheed Martin developed the original cyber kill chain framework to help organizations identify and prevent cyber intrusions. The steps in a kill chain trace the typical stages of an attack from early reconnaissance to completion. Analysts use the framework
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Multiple government agencies and military bodies in the APAC region have been targeted by what appears to be a new advanced threat actor that uses custom malware. Researchers refer to this group as Dark Pink (Group-IB) or Saaiwc Group (Anheng Hunting Labs), noting that it employs uncommon tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP).[1] The actor used DLL side-loading and event-triggered execution methods to run the payloads on compromised systems using the custom toolkit observed in the attacks.
Earlier this month, the infamous hacking group LulzSec’s founder issued a stern warning to the US. If 2020 was coined The Year of the Digital Pandemic, then 2021 has still not discovered any digital vaccines. Cyber-attacks have grown rapidly over the past year, and are showing no indications of slowing down. One ‘former’ Black Hat hacker expressed his growing concern at the lack of preparedness the United States has shown.
The US government has been attacked by several world superpowers durin
