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If you're a hacker, you should pat yourself on the back for a job well done. It is becoming increasingly clear that you have studied your target and are prepared to focus clearly and accurately upon the way they do business.
According to the report, "We also investigated two types of Business Logic attacks: Email Extraction and Comment Spamming. Comment Spamming injects malicious links into comment fields to defraud consumers and alter search engine results. Email Extraction simply catalogs email addresses for building spam lists. These Business Logic attacks accounted for 14% of the analyzed malicious traffic. Email Extraction traffic was more prevalent than Comment Spamming. A full anatomy of BLAs is described in this report."
It is unfortunate (for the spammers and hackers) that most office workers are becoming wise to the typical intrusion attempts. With this in mind, these same intruders are forced to understand their targets in more detail in order to complete their nefarious activities.
For instance, how many office workers would refuse to open an email from their boss? Especially when it contains a spreadsheet called "bonus calculation."
The malware this email contains may-well be entirely unique in the history of malware - other vendors have told iTWire that according to their scanning systems in excess of 50% of malware is unique, that no other copy of the intrusion has ever been observed.
This IS an arms race and it is clear that in the past few months there has been a clear escalation. In response to the rapid deployment of "next generation firewalls" by a number of vendors, the naughty lads of the Internet are becoming much more focused in their attacks.
May the joy of the Internet be upon you.
