Heya Gary (all) On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Gary McGraw <g...@cigital.com> wrote: > I agree that the APT term is overused by the marketing types. In this > case you can translate it as malware that infects a server or an ad > network and is "served up" to unwitting victims in a drive by download.>
Malware distributors look for good distribution channels, and the ad-server provides one. While it is a Threat, it's no more Advanced than we have seen before. It isn't more "Persistant" than Stoned [1] was on a disk. > What would you call it haroon? In truth, i would avoid giving it a new name. Drive by download: Yes. APT: No /mh [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoned_(computer_virus) -- Haroon Meer | Thinkst Applied Research http://thinkst.com/pgp/haroon.txt Tel: +27 83 786 6637 _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. Follow KRvW Associates on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/KRvW_Associates _______________________________________________
