We\u2019re here to help you understand the reality of the situation in order to provide insight. And like it or not, we have a Cyberwar on our hands\u2014and as with other wars, technology defines and constrains the rules of engagement. Yesterday we may have spoken about tanks or guns; today we speak of viruses and worms. But as with traditional machines of war, the human element is every bit as important as the technology, if not more so.
\nThe latest Cyberattack to hit the news: a worm called Gauss, a relative of Stuxnet, targeted certain Lebanese banks. Kaspersky, a Russian security firm, discovered the attack. On their blog post, the Kaspersky researchers note that \u201cafter looking at Stuxnet\u2026, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same \u2018factory\u2019 or \u2018factories.\u2019 All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage and cyberwar operations, pretty much defining the meaning of \u2018sophisticated malware.\u2019\u201d They go on to say that \u201cthis is actually the first time we\u2019ve observed a nation-state cyber-espionage campaign with a banking Trojan component.\u201d<\/p>\n