Syrian Electronic Army: Their Methods and Your Responses
summary
Reviews the Syrian Electronic Army’s tactics for researching targets, exploiting vulnerabilities and maintaining backdoors, and explains how to detect and remediate those backdoors. Describes concrete response steps and how to combine user awareness with technical controls to mitigate and recover from SEA-style attacks.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:58SEA Origins
- 3:49SEA Starts Looking Overseas
- 5:00Who's Behind the SEA?
- 6:37Who's Really Behind it?
- 7:54Notable SEA Hacking Targets
- 8:58Apparent Damage
- 10:50Attack Methodology
- 12:55New York Times Attack
- 15:01Traditional Spear Phishing Attacks
- 17:25After Initial Success
- 19:16Prevention
- 20:57Reaction
- 23:37Conclusions
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