Bots, Botnets and APTs Are Big Business

Professional, online criminal organizations invest heavily in botnets, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and next generation malware for one simple reason – they make lots and lots of money, with very little risk of discovery or prosecution. These attacks come from very well-funded, highly structured entities that operate much like corporations, with sophisticated development, production, marketing and quality assurance procedures.

These organizations invest significant amounts of time and money building logical groupings of compromised systems that are organized around a sophisticated, resilient Command-and-Control (CnC) infrastructure. These criminal networks are exceptionally stealthy and easily evade signature or behavior-based defenses. They can mimic normal application and traffic patterns, and can change their core software far faster than traditional security solutions can update their signature-based systems.

The criminals behind these attacks are serious about making money off their victims over an extended period of time, or stealing highly sensitive data such as trade secrets and intellectual property. The goal is not notoriety, but to ensure a stable business model for malicious behavior.

Breaches from these attacks that steal critical information typically generate hidden losses that don't show up until well after the fact. Even worse, every compromised system is under malicious remote control, without IT or security being aware of the penetration. These corporate assets are frequently used to attack other organizations or spread malware, which creates dangerous fiduciary breaches and opens the organization to significant legal, financial and brand liability.

Damballa detects and terminates cyber threat activity. Damballa™ Failsafe identifies specific compromised systems and associated malware, terminates active threats and delivers critical forensic information in order to prevent these threats from making your organization their next victim.