Attribution Part II: Don’t overthink it

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See Also - Attribution, and when you should care: Part 1
 
Posted November 29, 2016 by William Tsing
 
                                             


 
Last time, we took a look at a few common mistakes that are easy to make when trying to attribute cyber attacks. To recap:

Don’t
 
Panic over one indicator

Chase unrealistic threat models (Are you a cleared defense contractor or a law firm servicing one? No? Then APTs are probably not for you.)

Demand unambiguous data before implementing mitigations. You will not get it, and you will annoy your SOC.
 
 
So let us try to see if we can do better. Here’s a banking-themed phish a colleague received back in July.
 
                                 


 
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