Kaspersky: Targeted, stealth attacks shoot up in Q3

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), targeted and stealth attacks by hackers, which include State actors, have seen a surge in the third quarter in this calendar year. Worse still, the breadth of attacks has widened as the hackers seem to have diversified their tool kits.

The diversification makes it difficult for security experts to ascertain whether it’s a revamped tool from the same APT or a new threat altogether who used the existing tools to launch a fresh attack.

Cyber security experts have noticed an increase in the usage and number of new and previously unknown malicious toolsets in the quarter.