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A China-linked cyber espionage group known as Velvet Ant spent nearly a decade inside the internal network of an unnamed organization without being detected, according to the results of a forensic investigation published by cybersecurity firm Sygnia. The group’s defining characteristic is the ability to maintain stealthy years-long persistence in target environments. In this particular case, booting them out also took considerable effort, as they managed to gain control of the full authentication stack by … More →
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