#Dell SecureWorks says 60 families of #APT #malware traced back to #China

According to Joe Stewart, Dell SecureWork'sdirector of malware research, whilst his team have been investigating APTs for several months, he says it is important to define the term as used in this analysis. APTs, he says, are best defined as "cyber-espionage activity targeted at government, industry or activists."

During his research, Stewart says that he and his team discovered that the hackers using these APT malware families sometimes use a common tool – HTran - in order to disguise the location of their command-and-control (C&C) servers.

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