From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
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APTs and trojans
From the course: Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking
APTs and trojans
- [Instructor] APTs and Trojans. In this lesson, we're going to talk about the Advanced Persistent Threats and Trojans. So let's go ahead and get started. Advanced Persistent Threats or APTs. These are one of the most sophisticated threats to an organization. They require significant expertise, resources, and multiple attack factors. They further require an extended foothold in adoption of security controls placed in the target organization to evade and continually exfiltrate the information of achieve motives. Additionally, these threats track their targets over an extended period. So NIST defines Advanced Persistent Threat characteristics as consisting of a multi-stage attack. APT tactics, including prerequisites and post-conditions. Repeatedly pursuing its goal over an extended period of time. Stealth between the individual attack steps. Adapting to Defender Resisting Efforts. Grouped set of adversarial behaviors and resources with common properties believed to be orchestrated by a…
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