APT (Advanced Persistent Threat)

Nation state attackers, also known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), are highly skilled and well-funded groups or individuals sponsored by governments or state-sponsored entities. Their primary objective is to infiltrate and compromise targets of interest, including governments, critical infrastructure, multinational corporations, research institutions, and political organizations. Nation state attackers leverage their extensive resources, advanced techniques, and persistence to achieve their objectives.

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Navigating the Storm: Preserve Your Competitive Advantage And IP Against Nation-State Cyber Threats

July 13, 2023

Marthe Stegehuis

Navigating the Storm: Preserve Your Competitive Advantage And IP Against Nation-State Cyber Threats

In the vast and interconnected realm of the digital landscape, an insidious storm is brewing. This storm, as revealed by the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV) in their Cyber Security Assessment Netherlands 2022, is rapidly becoming the new norm: cyber and insider attacks orchestrated by nation-state actors (The National Coordinator for Counterterrorism and Security, 2022). One well-known example that exemplifies the magnitude of nation-state cyber threats is the SolarWinds cyber-attack. This incident had far-reaching consequences, creating a wave of disruption for numerous organizations.

Mitigating, Detecting, and Responding to Russian Cyberactivity

February 23, 2022

Luke Richards

Mitigating, Detecting, and Responding to Russian Cyberactivity

Vectra customers should be aware that current global events related to Russian recognition of separatist regions of the Ukraine carry with them the risk of increased cyber activity conducted by Russian state level actors. This includes evidence that the FSB, the main Intelligence Organization in Russia, is responsible for the DDoS against Ukrainian systems in February 2022.

August 3, 2020

Tim Wade

Ferret Out a RAT: Don’t Just Build a Better Mousetrap

Learn why using AI models to look for the communication pattern of a RAT in network data, can help detect them in real-time with high-fidelity based on the behavior observed.

July 20, 2020

Tim Wade

Security Limitations of IOCs—Lessons Learned from APT29

What the recent advanced threat actor 29 shows about the security limitations of indicator of compromise and how you can defend against privileged access attacks.