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organisations public facing websites and gathering to an organisations network. Based on their
as much information about the sites as possible, reconnaissance ndings they will attempt to
while simultaneously performing scans against the execute a targeted and sophisticated attack, as
attack and ultimately to data ex ltration: this is will go through, his motivations and techniques, internal networks. rough this they are looking well as distribute malware via phishing emails and
articulated as the “Cyber Kill Chain”
and a security strategy around it.
for any possible vulnerabilities and/or holes
social engineering with the intent of misleading an
e Cyber Kill Chain® was developed by In order to better understand this process
in the perimeter protection. ey can also use employee to click a link that permits the malware
Lockheed Martin’s Computer Incident Response and how attacks operate, the following example popular social media networks such as Facebook, to enter the network.
Team and describes the di erent stages of an outlines an attack, categorising each attack activity Twitter and LinkedIn, to learn as much about the Finally, the attacks will use brute force attacks
attack, from initial reconnaissance to objective in the context of the Kill Chain. e company in organisations employees, partners, suppliers, and to gain access to the network. Using di erent IP
completion. is representation of the attack
the example could be any company – from large employees’ family and friends as possible for the addresses and a signi cant number of computers,
ow has been widely adopted by organisations
corporations with global o ces, to online retail purpose of social engineering. is process can the hackers will kick o an automated dictionary
to help them approach their defence strategies in businesses, or SMBs. With hackers looking for take several months but a erwards attacks will attack and a er only a few short days, their
the same way attackers approach in ltrating their valuable data that could net a sizeable pro t from have identi ed multiple potential entry points into campaign could be successful, with malware is
businesses. As malicious activity continues to its sale in the cyber underground, no organisation the targeted organisations network and is now installed on the victim’s computer.
threaten sensitive data—whether it is personal data is immune to being a target.
primed to initiate their attack.
Next month in Part 2 we continue to explore
or company sensitive data—one certainty remains: the nal steps in the Cyber Kill Chain, including
Attackers will continue to exploit weakness to STEP 1: IDENTIFY AND RECON: e rst STEP 2: INITIAL ATTACK: Using several Command and Control, Discover and Spread, and
in ltrate systems and extract data that they can step attackers usually take is to identify members attack vectors, potentially deployed from Extract and Ex ltrate, as well as how organisations
turn into money. e best opportunity to get of sta within the organisation and the best di erent regions of the world to throw o their can use this knowledge to stop attackers from
ahead of the hacker is to understand the steps he
attack vectors to utilise. is is done by scanning
scent, attackers will attempt to gain access
compromising their systems. n

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