APT trends report Q3 2019

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APT trends report Q3 2019
October 16, 2019
https://securelist.com/apt-trends-report-q3-2019/94530/

For more than two years, the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky has been publishing quarterly summaries of advanced persistent threat (APT) activity. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports. They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of.

This is our latest installment, focusing on activities that we observed during Q3 2019.
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Final thoughts
In seeking to evade detection, threat actors are refreshing their toolsets. This quarter, we have seen this clearly in Turla’s development of its Tunnus backdoor and Topinambour dropper.

Korean-focused APT campaigns continue to dominate activities in Southeast Asia, a trend we first noted in our Q2 report.
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SC Magazine: APT actors up their game; is it only a government concern or do enterprises need to pay more attention?

According to Kaspersky, there has been an increase in APT activity across the third quarter of the year, and an increase in the usage of previously unknown malicious toolsets. The common denominator being the desire to remain undetected and so enable that persistence at the heart of every APT campaign.

"Considering the immense burden of legacy systems, difficulties of running up to date software and the lack of visibility into what is actually going on," says Daniel Goldberg, senior security researcher at Guardicore, "enterprises are, and will continue to be, compromised by any group that puts in a modest effort over time."

Which makes the concluding comment from Richard Cassidy, senior director of security strategy at Exabeam, all the more pertinent: "It's not APT groups we should worry about. It's poor security practices and lack of data analysis controls. This is the reason APTs find success in the first place."
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