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The purpose of these attacks is to install custom malware. [8] APT attacks on mobile devices have also become a legitimate concern, since attackers are able to penetrate into cloud and mobile infrastructure to eavesdrop, steal, and tamper with data. [9] The median "dwell-time", the time an APT attack goes undetected, differs widely between regions.
Advanced Persistent Threat 33 (APT33) is a hacker group identified by FireEye as being supported by the government of Iran. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The group has also been called Elfin Team , Refined Kitten (by Crowdstrike ), Magnallium (by Dragos), Peach Sandstorm , [ 3 ] and Holmium (by Microsoft ).
Sandworm is an advanced persistent threat operated by Military Unit 74455, a cyberwarfare unit of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service. [3] Other names for the group, given by cybersecurity researchers, include APT44, [4] Telebots, Voodoo Bear, IRIDIUM, Seashell Blizzard, [5] and Iron Viking.
Microsoft named Hafnium as the group responsible for the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server data breach, and alleged they were "state-sponsored and operating out of China". [3] [4] According to Microsoft, they are based in China but primarily use United States–based virtual private servers, [6] and have targeted "infectious disease researchers, law firms, higher education institutions, defense ...
Houser, the terrorism and mass-casualty researcher, said vehicle attacks are a concerningly easy way to rapidly kill and injure a large number of people because the attack starts and finishes ...
A report by the computer security firm Mandiant stated that PLA Unit 61398 is believed to operate under the 2nd Bureau of the People's Liberation Army General Staff Department (GSD) Third Department (总参三部二局) [1] and that there is evidence that it contains, or is itself, an entity Mandiant calls APT1, part of the advanced persistent threat that has attacked a broad range of ...
Repeat Attack-Firewall: Early warning for scans, worm propagation, etc. Alert on 15 or more Firewall Drop/Reject/Deny Events from a single IP Address in one minute. Firewalls, Routers and Switches. Repeat Attack-Network Intrusion Prevention System: Early warning for scans, worm propagation, etc.
An Arbor Security report found that Numbered Panda began a campaign against Japan and Taiwan using the Etumbot malware in 2011. [3] Similar to the previously observed campaign, the attackers would use decoy files, such as PDF, Excel spreadsheets, or Word documents, as email attachments to gain access to victims' computers. [3]