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Inside the Mind of an Advanced Persistent Threat

APT41 is more than a sophisticated threat actor. It is a stress test for enterprise control. This article explains what CISOs can learn from APT41 about exposure, identity, cloud misuse, persistence, detection and the dangerous illusion that recovery automatically means trust has been restored.
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Eckhart Mehler

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