NSA: State-backed attackers are not after your data — they're targeting CI

Companies in the crosshairs of advanced persistent threat (APT) actors look at data theft not as a primary objective of hacking crews backed by Russia, China and Iran — but rather as a means to an end, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) told attendees at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco. 

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