UK.gov teams up with Five Eyes chums to emit spotters' guide for miscreants' hack tools

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/11/hacking_tools_taxonomy/

By John Leyden
The Register
11 Oct 2018

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre and its western intel pals have 
today put out a report spotlighting the most commonly wielded hacking 
utilities.

The study sets out five categories of publicly available hacking tools 
used by crims, spies and hacktivists worldwide. The list won't come as too 
much of a surprise to penetration testers but is nonetheless valuable for 
its intended audience of enterprise security defenders.

The intel is designed to give enterprises a better awareness of what 
they're up against so they are better positioned to prepare defences.

The dossier (PDF) offers a "snapshot, rather than a compendium" of tools 
miscreants are likely to throw at targeted networks, with the malign 
utilities helpfully organised by the order in which the baddies are likely 
to deploy them.

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