Examples of APT in a sentence
In around 8 April 2020, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre ( NCSC) and the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory regarding ongoing activity by APT groups against organisations involved in both national and international COVID-19 responses.
The statement that Qi(t) and λi(t) are APT with tail index γ¯i carries over.
In and from 8 May 2020, the ACSC advised that APT actors use a range of tradecraft including combinations of high-end hacking tools and are not above using relatively simply or basic techniques such as phishing to achieve their goal.
It described password spraying as a commonly used style of brute force attack in which the attacker tries a single and commonly used password against many accounts before moving on to try a second password: NCSC, DHS and CISA, “Advisory: APT groups target healthcare and essential services”, May 2020.
In and from 8 May 2020, ACSC identified that “Advanced Persistent Threat” actors (also known as APT actors) are actively targeting health sector organisations and medical research facilities and that Australia’s health or research sectors could be at greater threat of being targeted, and potentially compromised, by malicious APT groups: 2020-009: “Advanced Persistent Threat ( APT) actors targeting Australian health sector organisations and COVID-19 essential services” (2020-009 Paper) (p 1).