Symantec defiant after New York Times hackers evade antivirus defences

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3423783/symantec-defiant-after-new-york-times-hackers-evade-antivirus-defences/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
31 January 2013

Symantec has offered a carefully-worded but defiant response to the news that 
one of its customers, the New York Times, was attacked by Chinese hackers with 
barely any intervention from its software.

Earlier today, the newspaper revealed that hackers probably connected to the 
Chinese military had spent four months trying to hack into the email accounts 
of dozens of its journalists, entering the network via compromised PCs.

Forensics carried out by the paper’s security consultant Mandiant showed that 
the weapon of choice was 45 pieces of targeted Trojan malware, only one of 
which was detected by the installed Symantec antivirus software.

Clearly sensitive to the issue, Symantec’s response has been to issue a 
statement implying that such sophisticated attacks could only be stopped using 
a layered security approach.

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