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Concept Advanced Persistent Threat: Its Use and Cases
Alena Leciánová, Mgr. Martin Bastl, Ph.D.

This article deals with the topic of Advanced Persistent Threat and attempts to provide information on this term. It defines and adjusts the term for further analysis using information from research papers and expert analyses. It describes the anatomy of an attack, mentions some of the known attacks and searches for similarities among them. At the end it advises what countermeasures should be taken.
Keywords: Advanced Persistent Threat, cyber attack, malware, phishing, social engineering.


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