Advanced persistent threat

APT Hackers for Hire Used for Industrial Espionage

APT Hackers for Hire Used for Industrial Espionage

| | Advanced persistent threat, Anti-Malware Research, APT, apt as a service, apt mercenary, Autodesk 3ds Max, Whitepapers
Bitdefender recently investigated an APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting an international architectural and video production company, pointing to an advanced threat actor and South Korean-based C&C infrastructure. The targeted company is known to ...
Bitdefender Labs
StrongPity APT – Revealing Trojanized Tools, Working Hours and Infrastructure

StrongPity APT – Revealing Trojanized Tools, Working Hours and Infrastructure

| | Advanced persistent threat, Anti-Malware Research, APT, APT research, APT whitepaper, bitdefender labs, StrongPity, StrongPity APT whitepaper, StrongPity research, Whitepapers
Bitdefender researchers have recently found the APT group StrongPity has been targeting victims in Turkey and Syria. Using watering hole tactics to selectively infect victims and deploying a three-tier C&C infrastructure to ...
Bitdefender Labs
US and UK Cyber Security Agencies Warn of APT Attacks against Healthcare Organizations

US and UK Cyber Security Agencies Warn of APT Attacks against Healthcare Organizations

| | Advanced persistent threat, APT, cisa, Cybersecurity, healthcare, Industry News, NCSC
An advisory from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity, the Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of a coordinated attack against the healthcare ...
HOTforSecurity

Scranos Rootkit Operation Turns Global; Enterprises to Improve Security Posture

| | Advanced persistent threat, cybersecurity awareness, enterprise security, malware, threats, Security threats
Sophisticated threats remain one of the main concerns in enterprises today. As environments grow in complexity, malware actors find innovative ways to infiltrate overlooked entry points in the network, hiding behind the ...
Business Insights In Virtualization and Cloud Security

Anthem Agrees to $16 Million Settlement Following Compromise of 80 Million Health Records

| | Advanced persistent threat, Data breach, Identity Theft
Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the US, will pay $16 million to the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights following a data breach that exposed the ...
Business Insights In Virtualization and Cloud Security

Lack of Specialists, Tools, Budget and Knowledge Are the Main Roadblocks for Financial Sector in 2018

| | Advanced persistent threat, APT, CISO, EDR, Financial Services
The financial services industry has been one of the most targeted in 2018, with third-party risks still the main cause of data breaches in this sector. Almost 50 percent of financial institutions ...
Business Insights In Virtualization and Cloud Security

MSP Networks Actively Targeted by Nation-Sate APTs, US Government Warns

| | Advanced persistent threat, APT, cybersecurity awareness
The US Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team has just issued a technical alert earlier this week, warning that US companies operating in critical sectors are at risk, as cyberespionage ...
Business Insights In Virtualization and Cloud Security
virtual appliances

How to Safeguard Against APT Attacks

| | Advanced persistent threat, APT, Cybersecurity, Network Security
The term “advanced persistent threat” (APT) describes a continuous series of persistent, covert cyber attacks that target specific business or political organizations. Usually created, directed and monitored by a dedicated set of ...
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