ESET Research Report Sample

This section contains information on targeted attacks and its characteristics. In particular, we discuss two types of attacks: attacks targeting a specific company or organization, and attacks targeting specific software and IT infrastructure. We do this by comparing two outstanding examples of these two species of attack: Aurora and Stuxnet. This chapter provides information on some intriguing facts related to Stuxnet, such as timestamps of its binaries, and information on compiler versions which might be useful in analysis of the malware. We end with statistics relating to Stuxnet distribution all over the world.

Recently, there has been increased public awareness and information about targeted attacks as the number of such attacks has significantly increased, becoming a separate cybercriminal business sector in its own right.