Dissecting and Understanding APT Threat Group Activity

• APT Groups Prioritize Espionage and Data Theft: Approximately two-thirds of all Trustwave SpiderLabs-tracked APT group activity is motivated by espionage, targeting government, defense, and telecom sectors primarily in the US, Ukraine, and Russia.
• Top Attacker Nations: China (41%), Iran (12.5%), and Russia are the leading origins for espionage attacks, emphasizing the critical need for robust threat intelligence to track state-sponsored activity.
• Beyond Detection: Actionable Threat Intelligence: Trustwave SpiderLabs operationalizes threat intelligence by dissecting APT group Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and converting them into custom detection rules to dramatically reduce attacker dwell time.

Government administration, defense, and finance sector organizations are the primary areas Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups are targeting, according to the most recent data from the Trustwave SpiderLabs’ Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team.