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The precedence of Cyberwar from China APT-1

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APT,  Advanced Persistent Threat , is usually a state/nation sponsored threat or sometimes a private consultancy service provoke this threat, targeting individual users(high profiles) or preferably a country. They sneak into our system via the network. These threads remain in our system for years, possibly decades too. The main aim of APT is to get all the information from the target without the user knowledge. Even the latest firewall/antivirus would fail to prevent this attack. The main drawback of all the APT's/threat is they require user interaction in order to gain access to our system. This is mostly done through phishing attacks.       Phishing : A threat actor gathers the target's information using publicly disclosed, social media or through breached websites. Threat agents use this information to obtain your PID like email, phone number, Date of birth, Location, Address, your interests, The ads you clicked online and so on. Keeping this details th...