Advanced persistent threats and the "big four": State-sponsored hackers in China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea in 2003–2021.
The author investigates a range of international hacking groups collectively known as advanced persistent threats (APTs), which have conducted a concentrated number of cyber operations from four authoritarian states – China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea. The author collected data on 112 APTs that o...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Strategy Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 280 - 300 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2024
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