China all up in your business: Annoying Persistant Threat - Dave Ockwell-Jenner (OWASP Ottawa)
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Dave Ockwell-Jenner explains the common cyber espionage techniques used by the "comment crew" (APT1). A video of his excellent demo can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJ2tHeb5yQ
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- 2. About Me • Senior Security Architect for SITA – IT & Communications specialists for the Air Transport Industry – Created and manage software security program • Owner of Prime Information Security – Boutique security consultancy specializing in small-medium enterprise • Previously worked with RIMBlackBerry, TELUS, Nortel • And… – Creator of the 37th ever web site! – Blogger for TELUS – Co-Author of SANS course Developing Defensible Java EE Solutions – Co-Founder of the Small Business Community Network (SBCN) – House DJ and Producer
- 3. Hunting Wabbits • Tracking Evil Bad Guys™ for the past several years – Looking at intrusion techniques, malware and exfiltration – The so-called ‘Advanced Persistent Threat’ • Not so much ‘Advanced’ but ‘Annoying’ • APT1 – Digital forensics firm MANDIANT recently claimed well-known hacking group to be an office of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – I may or may not have some experience with our Chinese friends!
- 4. How Advanced, is Advanced? • If I can understand it, it’s not very advanced – The organization and effectiveness is clever, but the techniques are something we can all understand • Why don’t we take a look at a recreation of an actual attack? – In time-honoured Looney Tunes tradition, we’ll use a fictional company called ACME, makers of…
- 5. Demo: Rules of Engagement • Please keep in mind, what you’re about to see and hear is for educational purposes ONLY • Please ask lots of questions • If something doesn’t work, it has nothing to do with my awesome talent… … it’s clearly a hardware problem
- 6. ACME Labs
- 7. What did we learn? • Simple malware is really easy to make and yet quite effective – Malware is really easy to hide from AV • Once compromised, it’s pretty trivial to snoop around further and steal loot – But we can make it more difficult • Our web sites & apps might be a hiding place for command/control of infected systems – So make sure our sites/apps are secured—see OWASP!