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Current Filter: Security>>>>>News> Impact of sony hack widens as malware infiltrates networks Editorial Type: News Date: 01-2015 Views: 1264   |  | ||
 | In the wake of the massive highly publicised hack against Sony that reverberated throughout the business world, a type of malware called Destover is now at large, it appears, using a stolen digital certificate that it could potentially use to attack other computer systems In response, Mark James, security specialist, ESET, has pointed out: "When a large corporation like Sony is breached, masses of information is stolen. In this particular case, the certificates are being used in an attempt to validate malware to trick some systems into thinking it's safe, because it has a valid certificate. This will trick automated systems to validate the malware and allow it to pass through the very systems designed to stop it. "When Sony was breached, they should have pulled their certificates and reissued valid clean ones. Some systems will have already allowed this malware into their networks, thus causing more indirect fallout from the Sony hack." | ||
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