Elderwood darkware platform

The attackers utilized various methods to gain access to these institutions, though one of the most prevalent attack techniques was a watering hole strategy employed by a group referred to as the Elderwood Gang (Clayton, 2012). The group would spear phish employees to click on links to a website hosting malware that ...

In the event that their attacks proved successful, the attackers then dropped their own custom malware, including Hurix and Sakurel - both of which are ... According to Symantec, this confirms the existence of the Elderwood Project, a zero-day exploit-sharing framework on which numerous threat actors rely ...

In June American authorities issued charges against the Russian mastermind behind the GameOver Zeus botnet, a sophisticated piece of malware that ... caught security people's attention include Operation Hangover, based in India and focused on Pakistani targets, and the Elderwood Group, a Chinese ...

"Even though these busts have come a little later than might be expected," he says, "it is not inconceivable to think that information or access gleaned in the author's arrest could have been instrumental in facilitating this coordinated effort." • Is Elderwood the digital arms dealer that fuelled attacks on Google?

Further investigation into an exploit kit known as "Elderwood" shows the attackers using it are more numerous and possibly better funded than previously thought, according to new research from Symantec. Elderwood is a hacking platform that has attack code which abuses software vulnerabilities in ...

Google and other high-tech firms were hit by malware in an attack dubbed Operation Aurora in 2009. Google went public with details of the assault in early 2010, blaming the Elderwood Crew or Beijing Group, another group of hackers allegedly affiliated with the Chinese state's People's Liberation Army ...

In most cases, Elderwood uses a convincing "spear-phishing" fake e-mail to fool an employee into clicking an infected e-mailed link or into opening a Trojan software-infected attachment that creates a digital backdoor for the cyberspies. In many cases, these attacks have utilized costly "zero-day" malware ...

Perhaps the biggest link is the Elderwood platform. It included a document creation kit that made it easy to bundle specific exploit code and a specific piece of malware and embed it into an otherwise clean document file. Elderwood also included a shared Adobe Flash file that created the precise conditions ...

Symantec also laid out its analysis of the gang, which it said was behind a slew of attacks dubbed the "Elderwood Project," after a source code variable ... the way the code in each Trojan was obfuscated, or masked; and the apparent sharing of a single custom-built malware development platform, said Cox.

The exploit allows what's known as a drive-by install: you can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer. Alongside last week's regular Patch Tuesday announcement (including a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers in the wild), Microsoft also ...

The attackers utilized various methods to gain access to these institutions, though one of the most prevalent attack techniques was a watering hole strategy employed by a group referred to as the Elderwood Gang (Clayton, 2012). The group would spear phish employees to click on links to a website hosting malware that ...

In the event that their attacks proved successful, the attackers then dropped their own custom malware, including Hurix and Sakurel - both of which are ... According to Symantec, this confirms the existence of the Elderwood Project, a zero-day exploit-sharing framework on which numerous threat actors rely ...

In June American authorities issued charges against the Russian mastermind behind the GameOver Zeus botnet, a sophisticated piece of malware that ... caught security people's attention include Operation Hangover, based in India and focused on Pakistani targets, and the Elderwood Group, a Chinese ...

"Even though these busts have come a little later than might be expected," he says, "it is not inconceivable to think that information or access gleaned in the author's arrest could have been instrumental in facilitating this coordinated effort." • Is Elderwood the digital arms dealer that fuelled attacks on Google?

Further investigation into an exploit kit known as "Elderwood" shows the attackers using it are more numerous and possibly better funded than previously thought, according to new research from Symantec. Elderwood is a hacking platform that has attack code which abuses software vulnerabilities in ...

Google and other high-tech firms were hit by malware in an attack dubbed Operation Aurora in 2009. Google went public with details of the assault in early 2010, blaming the Elderwood Crew or Beijing Group, another group of hackers allegedly affiliated with the Chinese state's People's Liberation Army ...

In most cases, Elderwood uses a convincing "spear-phishing" fake e-mail to fool an employee into clicking an infected e-mailed link or into opening a Trojan software-infected attachment that creates a digital backdoor for the cyberspies. In many cases, these attacks have utilized costly "zero-day" malware ...

The Hydraq (Aurora) Trojan horse is in the spotlight, courtesy of a hacking group that uses it to wreak havoc with the security of numerous renowned industries. While these hacking maneuvers were pretty high profile and as a result got a lot of coverage, it is the said group's hacking activities, and patterns, ...

Perhaps the biggest link is the Elderwood platform. It included a document creation kit that made it easy to bundle specific exploit code and a specific piece of malware and embed it into an otherwise clean document file. Elderwood also included a shared Adobe Flash file that created the precise conditions ...

Symantec also laid out its analysis of the gang, which it said was behind a slew of attacks dubbed the "Elderwood Project," after a source code variable ... the way the code in each Trojan was obfuscated, or masked; and the apparent sharing of a single custom-built malware development platform, said Cox.

Black Vine's custom malware has been detected as Hurix and Sakurei -- both ... The framework itself has been dubbed the Elderwood platform.

... in India and focused on Pakistani targets, and the Elderwood Group, ... Unlike criminals, who typically scatter malware far and wide to infect ...

The malicious software Blackshades RAT allowed attackers to access victims' computers to access files, copy keystrokes or operate the ...

Further investigation into an exploit kit known as "Elderwood" shows the attackers using it are more numerous and possibly better funded than ...

"Their malware and tools has been built to avoid detection and to ... of the assault in early 2010, blaming the Elderwood Crew or Beijing Group, ...

For example, these experts are now connecting Elderwood and a second ... Elderwood infects these less-secure sites with malware that ...

With their malware inside Google's network, the attackers siphoned source code and ... Perhaps the biggest link is the Elderwood platform.

But the Elderwood gang has used eight zero-days in three years. ... Those in turn were tied to malware used in the Google hack. Symantec ...

The exploit allows what's known as a drive-by install: you can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer. Alongside last ...

The attackers used nearly a dozen pieces of malware and several levels of encryption to burrow deeply into the bowels of company networks ...