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Cyber Risks · Krebs on Security

Chasing APT: Persistence Pays Off

Summary: An IT director at an international hedge fund was contacted by Hermes Bojaxhi of Cyber Engineering Services, who warned that Chinese hackers were on the fund's network; a follow-up investigation found at least 15 PCs compromised and sending proprietary information to the attackers. Bojaxhi said the fund was one of 25 victim organizations his firm called that day, and that he had tried to reach the same fund a month earlier but was handed off to an administrative assistant.

Bottom line: None of the first three Trojans on the hedge fund's machines were detected by any of the 42 anti-virus products bundled into VirusTotal, and the attackers were reached through the same compromised servers used against multiple Fortune 500 companies.

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