NUMEROUS reports concerning organised sophisticated cyberattack targeting valuable intellectual property of over 30 large companies including Google were released earlier this week.
As a result of this, McAfee has launched a guidance to help organisations determine if they were targeted.
“This is the largest and most sophisticated cyberattack we have seen in years targeted at specific corporations,” McAfee worldwide chief technology officer George Kurtz.
“It is a watershed moment in cybersecurity because of the targeted and coordinated nature of the attack. As a result, the world has changed; organisations globally will have to change their threat models to account for this new class of highly sophisticated attack that goes after high value intellectual property.”
McAfee’s guidance involves three steps:
1) Ensure you are using the latest version threat definition files and perform a full scan on all machines within your enterprise.
2) Inspect network traffic history for communication with external systems associated with the attack.
3) Examine computers for specific files or file attributes related to the attack.
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