Dark Reading - Hacked Off: Cybercriminals: More Obvious Than They Think?

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Attackers often use and abuse security by obscurity, which can lessen the likelihood that they will be caught. From them we can learn a lot about profiling attackers on our networks, and how they work to achieve better operational security. Take their use of encryption.

by Gadi Evron
May 29, 2009

Being obscure, attackers hope to avoid detection or compromise. The best example in recent years is binary packers.

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