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• Black Hat

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Hackers - First Generation – Lone Wolf

Chen Ing-Hau, 24, TaiwanArrested September 15, 2000CIH (Chernobyl) Virus

Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, USAArrested August 29, 2003Blaster Worm ('B' variants only), DDoS

Sven Jaschan, 18, GermanyArrested May 7, 2004NetSky (Sasser) Worm

Kevin MitnickJanuary 21, 1995Compromised, DEC, IBM, HP, Motorola, PacBell, NEC, ….




Cyber Criminals - “Proof of Concept” for making $

Jeanson James Ancheta, 24, USAArrested November 3, 2005Rxbot zombie networks for hire (spam and DDoS)

Farid Essebar, 18, MoroccoArrested August 25, 2005Mytob and Zotob (Bozori) Worms

Atilla Ekici, 21, TurkeyArrested August 25, 2005Operating Mytob and Zotob botnets




• DDoS attacks bookmakers in October 2003

• Extortion ($3 million gross)• Nine arrested on July 20 and 21, 2004• In October 2006, three were sent to

prison• The two gang leaders and masterminds

are still at large• On the Wanted List of the Federal

Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation

Cyber Gangs – Online Extortion

Maria Zarubina and Timur Arutchev




Cyber Crime Goes Big Time

Yaron Bolondi, 32, IsraelArrested March 16, 2005

• London branch of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Bank

• Worked with insiders through Aharon Abu-Hamra, a 35-year-old Tel Aviv resident

• Injected a Trojan to gather credentials to a transfer system

• Attempted to transfer £220 million into accounts he controlled around the world

• £13.9 million to his own business account




• Indicted on Aug 17, 2009

• Stole 130,000,000 credit card numbers

• Worked out of Miami – his one flaw

• Worked as an international organized cybercrime group– 3 in the Ukraine

• Including Maksik who earned of $11m between 2004-2006– 2 in China– 1 from Belarus– 1 from Estonia– 1 from unknown location that goes by “Delperiao”

Albert Gonzalez – Segvec, Soupnazi, J4guar

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Identity Theft Market Rates

Item PriceUS-Based Credit Card (with CVV) $1 - $6Full identity (ssn, dob, bank account, credit card, …) $14 - $18Online banking account with $9,900 balance $300Compromised computer $6 - $20Phishing Web site hosting – per site $3 - $5Verified Paypal account with balance $50 - $500Skype Account $12World of Warcraft Account $10




Lone Ranger FriendsCriminal

OrganizationsCriminalGangs

Cyber Crime Trends




Number of attacks monitored by SecureWorks

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• Criminal to Criminal – C2C

• Selling malware for "research only“

• Manuals, translation• Support / User forums• Language-specific• Bargains on mutation engines

and packers• Referrals to hosting companies• Generally not illegal• Operate in countries that shield

them from civil actions• Makes it easy to enter the

cybercrime market

C2C: Malware/Phishing Kit – “Arms Suppliers”




C2C – Distribution & Delivery – “Force Suppliers”




C2C – Exploit – “Intelligence Dealers”




C2C: Bot Management– “Turn Key Weapons Systems”

• 76service, Nuklus Team• Botnet Dashboards




Driving Factors Behind Cyber Crime

• Profitable• Low risk• New services to exploit• Easy (technically)• Easy (morally – you never meet the victim)

Picture provided by“energizer” hacking group 90 day project take$300,000 - $500,000




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Cyberwarfare

“Cyberspace is a warfighting domain.” - Lt. General Robert Elder, Commander 8th Air Force




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In 2007, the FBI reported that there were 108 countries with dedicated cyber-attack

organizations seeking industrial secrets. http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/081028_threats_working_group.pdf

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• Adversaries that cannot match U.S. conventional military strength have an incentive to employ asymmetric strategies to exploit our vulnerabilities– Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College

• The Chinese want to dominate this information space. So, they want to develop the capability of attacking our "information advantage" while denying us this capability– Mike McConnell – Director of National Intelligence

Leveling the playing field




• Most skilled vulnerability researchers in the world• Very capable at command & control networks• Objective is to steal intellectual property

• Information warfare– as a tool of war, – as a way to achieve victory without war– as a means to enhance stability.

• Strategy– “100 Grains of Sand” – infiltrate as many networked systems as

possible and lie in wait for sensitive data and/or command and control access.

China

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Whitehouse email compromised – Nov, 2008

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The federal government reported 18,050 cybersecurity breaches in fiscal year 2008

Source: Department of Homeland Security

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• Compromise reported April 2009, started as early as 2007

• $300 Billion project – costliest in US DOD history

• Several Terabytes of data stolen about electronic systems– Most sensitive secrets not

compromised

• Source of attacks appear to be China

Joint Strike Fighter

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“United States is under cyber-attack virtually all the time, every day”- Robert Gates Secretary of Defense




• Russian has been relatively silent on its Strategy for Cyberwar

• Cyber-Activism– Estonia– Lithuania– Ukraine

• Cyber-War– Chechen Rebels during NordOst

Hostage Crisis– Georgia Conflict– Krgyzstan

Russia

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• 300 Lithuanian Web sites defaced with Soviet Symbols by Russians after Lithuanian law banned use of Soviet symbols

• Ukrainian President’s website hacked after expressing interest in joining NATO

• Estonia knocked offline for moving a Soviet Era WWII war memorial

Cyber-Activism – Proof of Concept

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CyberWarfare – Russian Georgia Conflict - IWar

• Physical and cyber warfare operations coincided with the final "All Clear" for Russian Air Force between 0600 and 0700 on August 9,2008

• Physical and cyber warfare shared targets, media outlets and local government communication systems in the city of Gori

• Further cyber warfare operations against new targets in Gori coincided with traditional physical warfare target




Russia's Cyber Militia – Distribution of “Bots”




StopGeorgia.ru

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Hosted by Softlayer in Plano Texas.




• July 4 – July 9, 2009 DDOS Attacks

• Approximately 20,000 attacking hosts (at $0 cost to the attacker)

• Most attacking hosts were in South Korea

• Popular Peer to Peer filesharing network in South Korea hacked to spread malware and enlist machines to attack

• Many government critical infrastructure sites down for several days

www.dhs.govwww.dot.gov www.faa.govwww.ftc.govwww.nasdaq.comwww.nsa.govwww.nyse.comwww.state.govwww.usps.govwww.ustreas.govwww.voa.govwww.whitehouse.gov www.defenselink.mil

Fourth of July DDoS attacks

finance.yahoo.comtravel.state.govwww.amazon.comwww.usbank.comwww.yahoo.govwww.marketwatch.comwww.washingtonpost.comwww.usauctionslive.govwww.umarketwatch.com




• Destruction of a $1M power generator by compromising the control network for the generator

• DHS Project Aurora

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJyWngDco3g

Project Aurora

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• There are no international boundaries on the Internet

• There are safe havens for criminals where they may operate without consequence. Some havens provided in return for services or technology

• Governments enlisting the services of traditional cybercrime criminals to advance their information warfare capabilities.

• Governments funding training programs for information warfare

• Cost of CyberAttacks is decreasing, effectiveness is increasing.

• Cyberspace is part of the battlefield of the 21st Century

State of Cyber Attacks and the problems

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• Release of Dams• Disruption of air traffic flow• Destruction of power substations• Disruption of First Responders and Emergency services during a

terrorist attack• Integrity in the financial system leading to lack of consumer

confidence• Disruption of law enforcement and tainting of evidence• Corruption, tainting of food supply

Balance of Military Might?

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Questions?

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