Long-Running Cyberattacks Become The Norm

InformationWeek’s Dark Reading | Jan 2, 2015

One thing that the depressing string of data breaches this year shows is that cyber attackers have become skilled at staging long-lasting data exfiltration campaigns. “We are beginning to realize in some cases that the situation is far worse than we realized,” says Stephen Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal Networks. “In some cases attackers have been inside networks for months and even years without being discovered,” he says, pointing to the recently disclosed Regin APT threat as an extreme example.