The Art of Cyberwarfare

1 Nation-State Attacks

Nation-state attacks aren’t like most threats you’ll encounter. Typical threats rely heavily on malware, so you can often mitigate them with automated defenses. Once antivirus vendors develop signatures for the malware, their software can intercept it without the need for human interaction. At that point, the criminal behind the threat will generally lack the time and resources to rethink the failed attack and move on to another opportunity.

When nation-state attackers fail, however, they will likely respond by dedicating more resources to the objective, which is how they have succeeded in targeting governments, militaries, ...