“The Russian shadow economy is an economy of scale, one that is service oriented and that has become a kleptocracy wherein crony capitalism has obtained a new lease on life in cyberspace,” says a new report into the cybercriminal Russian underground.
Professor John Walker, chair of the London chapter ISACA and CTO of Secure-Bastion, sees a road-map for APT laid out by the report. “In a nutshell,” he told Infosecurity, “what the Trend Micro report is confirming is that the much debated logical attack vectors of
===> the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), and the more focused Advanced Evasion Techniques (AET) as reported by StoneSoft are not hype, but reality.<===
“In the Trend Micro report,” he continued, “we see the imagination of the Russian Cyber Attacker laid out before our eyes – with some excellent examples of the lengths cyber criminals are prepared to take to underpin a successful mission.
===> It is also very clear that, this mission is lucrative, and would seem to imply it is going to be with us for some time yet.” <===
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