Symantec: Hackers, who created Elderwood Platform, continue to attack medium and large business
Representatives of the anti-virus company in an interview said that Symantec for quite a long time to track activity of the group and was able to establish that at the disposal of the participants is a very large collection of exploits so-called "o-day", that is, programs that attack the vulnerability, which is not publicly was known. Typically, vulnerability "0-day" written or direct organizers of the attack, or the professionals who sell them for big money.In Symantec said that recently said the hacker group also began to attack and several major Western industrial companies involved in the supply of raw materials and industrial products. In addition, it was found that the hackers used a variety of components, the building blocks of a single unified platform, affectionately called "Elderwood Platform". The components of the platform had previously been involved in several high-profile attacks. The platform is designed so that with it you can quickly design and build exploits "o-day".
