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Weathering Russian Winter: The Current State of Russian APTs

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According to Richard Bejtlich’s paper on the topic , ‘the United States Air Force coined the phrase ‘advanced persistent threat’ in 2006 because teams working within the service needed a way to communicate with counterparts in the unclassified public world.’ Offline backups. From then on, APT became a heavily used, marketable term.