Tagg: Advanced Persistent Threat

Another highly advanced and highly stealthy Advanced Persistent Threat (or APT) has come to light over the past few weeks. It has been around at least since 2008, and it may have been active for several years before that. Its stealthiness and complexity have delayed detection and defensive analysis. Symantec and Kaspersky Labs have released […]

I recently wrote about cyber security and hotels. Now Kaspersky Labs has reported that things are even more dangerous than we realized. Darkhotel is an APT or Advanced Persistent Threat. Since at least 2007 this sophisticated attack has targeted executives staying in luxury hotels in Asia, mostly in Japan. The technology and targeting suggest state-level […]

Kaspersky Labs has released another fascinating report on a complex Advanced Persistent Threat (or APT), an extremely dangerous form of malware. An APT is certainly advanced, they typically are complicated systems of several forms of malicious software, and each component tends to be at least as complex and as capable as what we used to […]