Tools, Techniques, Procedures of the RSA Hackers Revealed

An anonymous reader writes "Details of the tools, techniques and procedures used by the hackers behind the RSA security breach have been revealed in a research paper (PDF) published by Australian IT security company Command Five. The paper also, for the first time, explains links between the RSA hack and other major targeted attacks. This paper is a vendor-neutral must-read for any network defenders concerned by the hype surrounding 'Advanced Persistent Threats.'"

Comments

Re:Not much about RSA

[Anonymous Coward]

The Murcy malware is apparently also linked by the protocol it uses ('IP2B') to the Night Dragon attacks and a family of malware called the 'Destory RAT'. The shared infrastructure and tools indicate that the same attackers responsible for the SK Communications hack were behind both the RSA hack and Sykipot malware; presumably we can conclude that the description of their "Techniques and Procedures" applies equally to all.

Re:That should be done anyway.

[Anonymous Coward]

well obviously, they're just proving that research papers are an
excellent attack vector on folks who care about security and
implement security recommendations blindly.

Yummy. Digitally signed root kits.

[sgt scrub]

IMHO the most important thing in the article is that the malware was digitally signed. This exposes the weakness in digital signatures. Not only for applications and modules(drivers) but UEFI and all of the other "secure boot" ideas.