Posté par: igor51 le février 02, 2013, 19:50:55
The Chinese group behind the targeted attack on the New York Times was laser focused on accessing the email of a reporter and the newspaper?s former Beijing bureau chief to the point that it used an inordinate number of custom malware samples to get the job done.
?In terms of statistics, 45 [custom malware samples] as a ratio to the number of computers involved, 53, is a high ratio,? said Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer of Mandiant, the forensics firm hired by the Times to investigate the targeted attack. ?Usually, you?ll see one or two for the relatively small number of systems involved.?
Source: Inside the Targeted Attack on The New York Times (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/investigators-chinese-targeted-information-reporters-sources-new-york-times-attack-013113)