Moving the Line in the Sand

Posted: April 10th, 2016

By Brian Bartholomew

Brian Bartholomew is a Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab North America and is responsible for reverse engineering malware and tracking actors focused on cyber espionage or APT. Bartholomew brings more than 15 years of malware analysis, cyber defense, penetration testing, and cyber operations experience. Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab in 2015, he led the technical cyber espionage team at iSIGHT Partners.

The Sony Pictures Entertainment hack served as a very public wake-up call to the dangers posed by malicious hackers. In the course of the attacks, information was both stolen and destroyed by the attackers – and new information is still coming to light about who those attackers were. The Cipher Brief spoke with Brian Bartholomew, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky Labs North America, about a recent joint report about the Sony hackers – now known as the Lazarus Group. According to Bartholomew, the biggest impact of the Lazarus Group’s activities could be greater usage of destructive techniques by a larger number of hacker groups.

The Cipher Brief: What is the Lazarus Group? How did Kaspersky become aware of it, and how long has it been active?

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