Symantec to Work with Industry Partners to Combat Lazarus Hacking Group
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 02/26/2016 10:37 AM
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The cyber-espionage group Lazarus is being targeted by Symantec. Symantec has launched an across-industry initiative dubbed ‘Operation Blockbuster."
With research from analytics firm Novetta, Symantec has been able to link Lazarus to a spate of high-profile attacks that involved aggressive, destructive tactics on targets in South Korea and the US dating back to 2009.
Orla Cox, Director, Security Intelligence Delivery at Symantec said:
“Tackling today’s digital security challenges often require a collective approach to keep our customers protected. Our investigations have shown that the Lazarus Group is a well-resourced and aggressive adversary with the capabilities to carry out both espionage and subversive attacks. By pooling our respective insights, the Operation Blockbuster team hopes to deliver a considerable blow to this attack group while helping to ensure that all of our customers have robust protections to safeguard valuable information.”
Lazarus has been linked to some high profile hacks including:
• a wave of DDOS attacks on South Korean websites in 2011
• a disk-wiping trojan breach that targeted a number of corporations in 2013 and
• Backdoor.Destover the highly destructive trojan that was used in the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014
Operation Blockbuster will see security vendors share useful intelligence related to the group to help commercial and government organizations in defending against them.
Source: InfoSecurity
With research from analytics firm Novetta, Symantec has been able to link Lazarus to a spate of high-profile attacks that involved aggressive, destructive tactics on targets in South Korea and the US dating back to 2009.Orla Cox, Director, Security Intelligence Delivery at Symantec said:
“Tackling today’s digital security challenges often require a collective approach to keep our customers protected. Our investigations have shown that the Lazarus Group is a well-resourced and aggressive adversary with the capabilities to carry out both espionage and subversive attacks. By pooling our respective insights, the Operation Blockbuster team hopes to deliver a considerable blow to this attack group while helping to ensure that all of our customers have robust protections to safeguard valuable information.”
Lazarus has been linked to some high profile hacks including:
• a wave of DDOS attacks on South Korean websites in 2011
• a disk-wiping trojan breach that targeted a number of corporations in 2013 and
• Backdoor.Destover the highly destructive trojan that was used in the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014
Operation Blockbuster will see security vendors share useful intelligence related to the group to help commercial and government organizations in defending against them.
Source: InfoSecurity
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