New Chinese Malware Attacks Department of Defense

[CommanderFrank]

A new strain of an older malware is attacking the Department of Defense and associated defense contractors. The new strain is called Sykipot, a redesigned version of phishing malware making the rounds in 2006. AlienVault has tracked the origin of the attacks back to Chinese cyber attackers. Once again, the weakest link in cyber security is the end user.

Tracing the malware’s communications, Blasco was able to determine that the US servers that seemed to receive the malware’s messages were really just a proxy for servers in China.

 

[jctusmc03]

Silly China

 

[Bojamijams]

Nuke China

 

[Herushan]

Cyber attacking is easy to do these days without much consequence it seems. Wonder if cyber attacks will lead to actual fighting in the future?

 

[sliverjazz]

Just unplug the cord from the modem jack.

 

[Ticker305]

Cyber attacking is easy to do these days without much consequence it seems. Wonder if cyber attacks will lead to actual fighting in the future?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304563104576355623135782718.html

 

[Sp33dFr33k]

If it weren't for the really stupid users and the lack of security most places would be just fine. No matter how many times you explain the policies to the users, someone will still click a link or open an infected PDF.

 

[aeroportspwn]

I bet they are saying "those Chinese are sneaky lil bastages".

 

[likeman]

they need to stop using adobe reader and use something els like foxit

 

[TechLarry]

Poison food, poison code.

It's a damn shame they own us. I think we should kick them to the curb anyway.

 

[hakstarr]

its interesting how we dont threaten import duties from china when they pull this kind of shit.

 

[Methadras]

The Chinese? Hackers? Really? No....