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hoping to shed some light on the
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situation a new name was coined denoting
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a hacker group capable of executing such
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a long-lasting attack a or advanced
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persistent threat however it wasn't
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until several years later that it became
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clear who the original AP
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was the credit for the first
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Counterattack against the rat goes to a
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treat research team at macafee in 2011
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they broke into the server where the
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stolen documents were stored it housed
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the logs documenting the rat's victims
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governments institutions companies and
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other organizations all the victims were
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breached by the same method and all of
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their documents were siphoned through
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the same rat caves things clicked into
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place all the AP activity which seemed
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like a bunch of disjointed attacks were
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planned and centrally coordinated it was
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a part of one operation and McAfee gave
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it a name operation Shady rat in 2013
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mandiant a cyber security focused
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subsidiary of Google managed to get even
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further they named the group behind the
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operation as AP1 highlighting its size
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and importance then they Trac the
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breadcrumbs left by the hackers
