Advanced Persistent Threats Campaigns and Attribution
- 1 Department of Computer Science, Instituto Superior de Tecnologias Avançadas-ISTEC, Portugal
- 2 Department of Computer Science, Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
- 3 Department of Computer Science, Instituto Superiror Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract
The main objective of this study is to carry out a systematic review of the literature regarding Advanced Persistent Threats (A.P.T.) and A.P.T. Campaigns. The work is focused on campaigns with geographical origin in China and for this reason, the main A.P.T. campaigns from that region are analyzed. All types of documentation were used for the systematic literature review, including gray literature, such as reports from official and government agencies. The Attribution is one of the most important parts of the APT problem, this study tries to demonstrate that it was possible to make the Attribution in relation to certain Groups in China, groups that attacked many western countries via APT. The problem to be solved is to Assign these Groups, that is, to know who are the authors of the APT. The scope of work is specifically the APT attacks and their possible origin in China.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2023.1015.1028
Copyright: © 2023 Pedro Ramos Brandao, Henrique Sao Mamede and Miguel Correia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Advanced Persistent Threats
- A.P.T.
- A.P.T. Attribution
- A.P.T. Campaigns