Ken Dunham Threat Quotations

It shows increased activity and viability for future Macintosh-based threats on the Mac OS X platform.

This is one of those big, under-the-radar threats that we've been concerned about. There has been a trend away from big-bang attacks to very targeted and sophisticated attacks that take place right under your nose. This is one of them.

The threat level for this vulnerability may be dramatically increased if more automated methods of distribution are found to be successful, such as e-mail or IM or file shares. The impact of attacks may also increase, with more sinister codes being installed as new hackers attempt to leverage the vulnerability to their advantage.

This is a social engineering worm written in Russian. It is interesting when you look at it. This is a Java-based type of threat and it has been proven to be successful. We need to look at this and see what is going to be the threat down the road.

Slowly evolving threats like Grew.A often lead to increased fear, uncertainty and doubt without the help of an intelligence provider. It makes it almost impossible for some to get qualified research data on a worm when there is so much misinformation, aliases, and other data available on the Internet.