Phishing Threats: Real-time File Extractor by Solera Networks

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Real-time File Extractor by Solera Networks

Real-Time File Extractor---Real-time Malware Extraction and Analysis by Solera Networks

To counteract today's targeted attacks that use low profile, multi-vector malware, Solera Networks has announced Real-Time File Extractor as part of their DeepSea platform. This is claimed to identify zero-day exploits.

Some of the advertised features:
- Real-time malware file extraction based on deep packet inspection attributes such as transport protocol, file extension or mime pipe
- policy-based automated analysis of common threat vectors: PE (portable executable) files, PDFs, JavaScript, Java JAR files, Flash and Microsoft OLE documents

The focus is on 'files on the wire'.
http://www.net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=2020

Solera Network alerts on attack trends in 2012 is worth noting:
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=12213

-Joseph Ponnoly

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Phishing Threats

Computer users receive emails from their bankers or employers, or from utility companies or other institutions or organizations they deal with or even from friends on facebook or twitter, asking for updating their personal information by clicking on links provided in the mail. They take it for granted that these are genuine mails and in good faith click on the links. The phishers who are organized criminals redirect the users to malicious websites and harvest their personal information. The users ultimately become victims to identity theft, financial frauds and even more serious crimes leading to blackmail, murder, and so on.

Phishing attacks engineered by criminals through the medium of phishing emails ultimately lead to loss of consumer confidence in online transactions that include financial transactions and social interactions through Facebook and other social networking sites.

This is an attempt to survey the phishing threat landscape, to identify the criminal groups and their modus operandi and to understand the impact of phishing on online users.