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Dave Kennedy
March 22nd, 2013

On Wednesday afternoon, local time, the?Republic of Korea?suffered a cyber attack, perhaps?more than one. Analysis is still ongoing, but at this writing a?phishing attack?spread malware that contained a?logic bomb?with a trigger set for 2:00 p.m.The hard disks of infected systems were?corrupted. The volume of?bad intelligence?collected after this event was remarkable. Attribution is a hard problem and any reports of it in the first days should be treated with skepticism. Another cyber attack was revealed and reported by Hungary?s?CrySyS Lab?and?Kaspersky. It leveraged the support tool TeamViewer. Now called TeamSpy,?criminals operated a complex, but low profile campaign, for at least three years?and perhaps up to 8-1/2 years.? Neither the attack on the ROK nor TeamSpy seem to be especially sophisticated.?Norwegian telecom, Telnor?reported they were the victim of?industrial espionage. We?ve long recognized the potential for evil from unmanaged embedded devices, but we now have?intelligence?for how immense the problem really is.? Just because it?s bad, does not necessarily mean it?s also evil: customers of?Google,?Chase, and?LinkedIn?all suffered from noteworthy outages.

The paragraph above is taken from the executive summary of the RISK?Team?s weekly INTSUM report.Verizon security product customers should?access the full INTSUM via your portal.

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