Examples of Recent High-profile Advanced
access. After the Times’ report, Bloomberg LP,
quired to penetrate the target systems. If these
An advanced persistent threat attack consists
Persistent Threat Attacks Include:
The Wall Street Journal and The Washington
do not work, the attackers typically have much
of multiple phases to break into a network and
Deemed to be one of the most successful APT
Post reported that they were also targeted by
more sophisticated tools at their disposal, and
gather valuable information over the long term
attacks, Carbanak was a campaign targeted
what they also believe to be Chinese hackers.
will choose to use them if needed.
as outlined below.
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primarily at financial institutions. It used
malware that was introduced to