Simmering Over a ‘Cyber Cold War’
Summary: McAfee and CSIS reported that more than half of 600 executives surveyed worldwide said they had been subject to stealthy infiltration by high-level adversaries, and 59 percent believed foreign governments were involved. Mandiant said the scale and logistics of the advanced persistent threat attacks it investigated indicated state sponsorship, and that only 24 percent of the malicious samples it examined were detected by security software.
Key Takeaway: Mandiant correlated almost every APT intrusion it investigated to current events within China, with exfiltrated data matching needs around U.S.-China mergers and acquisitions, business negotiations, and defense acquisition opportunities - and some implants were configured to sleep for over a year.
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