State Sponsored Attacks in 2023 and Beyond

As we begin 2023 I wanted to take some time and look at the state sponsored threat landscape. Over the last few decades we’ve seen seismic shifts in how state sponsored actors attack, starting with traditional espionage with attacks like Moonlight Maze and Project Gunman and evolving into more intellectual property theft and dissident targeting with attacks like Operation Aurora. Now activity is moving into increasingly destructive or destabilizing attacks we’ve seen used in both Ukraine and the Middle East …

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