Being connected to the Internet today, the question one has to ask himself or herself is not if I get breached, but more on when I will be breached. That being said, according to Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigation Report 92% of all breaches they researched and participated in investigating were committed by parties external to the network being compromised. In addition to this statistic, 40% of breaches incorporated some form of malware and 52% used some form of hacking, which according to their information both were at least a 10% decrease from the previous year (Verizon Risk Team, 2013). Even though those numbers have decreased, there is no definitive data to say whether this is due to an increase in the ability of technology to detect and prevent or if the end user is becoming more educated or some combination of the two.
Malware, short for malicious software, as stated above still accounts for approximately 40% of breaches detected and caught. Coreflood has been gone through multiple iterations and has evolved over its lifetime starting out as an IRC (Internet Relay Chate) Botnet (Robot Network) and evolving into a Trojan capable of stealing your keystrokes, data, and anything else that you might find important. While Coreflood isn’t a big danger today, due to the U.S Department of Justice and FBI replacing the malicious command and control (C2) servers with government controlled systems, it did have a big effect on computers in its hay day. As shown by Computerworld and FBI data Coreflood was receiving as many as 800,000 beacons a day to the C2 servers.
Figure 1: Data: “2011 Computer World”, Keizer
To start with a brief history and terminology, Coreflood is a derivative of the AFcore Trojan which originated ba...
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Hacking, with the intent to steal or deface, is so feared in the corporate world that companies have spent $1.8 billion this year alone on computer network security products and services (Home Hackers 1). Cracking of home computers has been rare, but it is always a growing concern. Any machine connected to the Internet is potentially vulnerable, but the best targets are those with high-speed, "always on" connectors, such as cable modems or digital subscriber lines. Systems with high-speed connections are typically targeted because they are the simplest to track down. People have to realize that hacking is not a prank or a game, especially when hackers are hitting such spots as the White House site, the FBI site and the Senate site. The fines and jail time for these hackers are not very funny either. Arrests are being made and punishments can be up to life in prison and thousands, and in some cases millions of dollars in fines.
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Multi-platform computer worms are a tool that computer hackers use to infect computers to gain control access. Computer worms are a dangerous virus because they are self-replicating, meaning that they multiply themselves and spread onto other computer networks seeking a lapse in internet security. Computer worms do not need to attach themselves onto an existing computer program to gain access to the victim computer files. The computer worm was created on accident by a Cornell student named Robert Morris; he was seeking a way of managing the internet in 1988. “Morris had no malicious intent, but a bug in his program caused many of the computers the worm landed on to crash. … but worms had come of age and have since evolved into an effective way of attacking systems connected to the internet” (Barwise). Today, hackers use the Morris worm to infect computers. “Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks — and pocketing several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia …” (Richmond). Since the good intended creation of the worm it has only been used maliciously as a computer virus by money seeking computer hackers such as the Koobface gang in Russia.
Malware, short for malicious software, is wide-spread in today’s computer market. Malware is software intended to gain sensitive information or access to a victim’s private system (“Who Creates Malware and Why?” par. 13). Many forms of malware exist: the major categories including viruses, ransom ware, worms, keyloggers, trojan horses and rootkits. Today, malware is most commonly used to steal victims’ personal information for financial gains, but malwares’ attention was not always this way. The first computer worms were written as harmless pranks.
The Defense Department made an admission of the first major cyber attack upon its systems in August 2010. It was revealed that the attack actually took place in 2008 and was accomplished byplacing a malicious code into the flash drive of a U.S. military laptop. “The code spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital breachhead.” (2) This quote , attributed to then Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III , is just part of the shocking revelations that were disclosed in his speech made on July 14, 2011. Lynn said that...
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Cyber attacks are becoming more and more popular lately as they are cheap, convenient and less risky than physical attacks. All it takes is a computer, internet connection, and time. These “Cybercrooks” are hard to find seeing as they can be anywhere in the world and the anonymity of the Internet makes them unreachable. Vulnerable components in IT Infrastructure are the software, hardware, and network. In order for any type of malware to work it needs to get through all these walls (Jang-Jaccard).
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