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UK Critical Structures Targeted by Trojan Attacks
ElGanzoLoco writes "The UK's National Infrastructure Security Coordination Centre is reporting that key british infrastructures (government, telecom, transports, banks among others) are under attack by specific, targeted e-mail trojans. According to their report (PDF), 'the emails use social engineering to appear credible, with subject lines often referring to news articles that would be of interest to the recipient. In fact they are "spoofed", making them appear to originate from trusted contacts, news agencies or Government departments.'. The attackers are apparently trying to gather sensitive or secret data. While the NISCC has not been able to precisely trace the attacks' origins, most IPs seem to trace back to Far-East Asia."
Well since only old people target UK critical structures I'd say a good bet would be Korea
Although why woudl they want anything to do with the UK? Isnt it the USA thats their bete noir?
Maybe they're after James Bond...
I don't need a signature.
The obvious solution to this problem is to recruit Austin Powers and have him go back in time to around 1995 to Microsoft Headquarters and take over their security services department. Then by sheer mojo, he will re-engineer the software to prevent these types of intrusions. Problem solved, the Queen is saved!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
... I've got a pretty good idea what these "convincing emails from government officials" look like.
GOOD DAY
MY NAME IS PRINCE NARIB ABDULLAH HERZEGOVINA OOGA-BOOGA. I RUN AN OIL COMPANY IN NIGERIA. I AM CONTACTING YOU BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP.
I HAVE $20,000,000 WHICH I NEED TO GET OUT OF NIGERIA AND INTO THE UK. I WANT TO USE YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IN ORDER TO DO THIS.
I HAVE GIVEN THIS MUCH THOUGHT AND I AM PREPARED TO OFFER YOU 20% ($4,000,000) FOR THIS SERVICE.
PLEASE CONTACT ME AT YOUR EARLIEST CONVENIENCE SO WE CAN DISCUSS THIS!!!oneoneoneOMGWTFBBQ!!
I would be very interested to know how they find ways to hop the Great Firewall of China twice...
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At least we can be confident that the highly trained, tech savy American Homeland Security systems will be perfectly secure.
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