Sony Pictures Entertainment

Report: Sony Fits Pattern of other Destructive Hacks

Sony Pictures Entertainment
The attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment shares details to other, destructive malware attacks in recent years.

At a time when companies are warned to be on the lookout for “low and slow” attackers who studiously avoid notice, the Sony breach will be remembered for its unusual ferocity. On Nov. 24, the assailants declared their presence by decorating employee desktops with a belligerent message before erasing the hard drives of computers and servers they compromised as a parting shot.

Destructive hacks such as the one on Sony are atypical. But they are not unknown. In fact, the attack on Sony shares many similarities with at least two other recent, destructive cyberattacks: from the methods used to carry out the strike to the software used to compromise Sony’s computer systems. Those earlier hacks also suggest that attackers had access to Sony’s network long before they played their hand.

Read more over at The Christian Science Monitor.