Remember the good ol’ days of playing hide-and-seek? It’s hard to forget the rush of finding the perfect hiding place. I remember crouching into a tiny ball behind the clothes hanging in my mother’s closet, or standing frozen like a statue behind the curtain of our living room window. While it was “just a game” when we were kids, in today’s internet-connected world, that game has morphed into a much darker, more serious activity with attackers hiding in unexpected and oftentimes forgotten places. Attackers may live in some technologies, machines and systems for years, remaining unseen by antivirus and other detection controls.
I spoke with X-Force Red’s Chief Technology Officer and veteran hacker Steve Ocepek to learn more about the most popular attacker hideouts.
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Where Can Attackers Hide?
In order to root them out, the best defensive hackers think like attackers. They know the top spots in which attackers could hide. From there, they can assess any type of environment, spot where attackers could hide for an extended period of time and show how those attackers may use that position to achieve their objectives. Ocepek says there are several likely places an attacker may call home. To find them, first look at personal computers.
According to Ocepek, attackers most often hide out in home-based computers. From there, they can compromise users by sending emails with malicious links or attachments or redirecting users to a malicious page. Typically, attackers use home PCs to build a botnet and launch more attacks. From ..
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