APT Group

An APT group is a highly skilled and organised cybercriminal group, usually associated with a nation state or a sophisticated criminal organisation.

Cybercrime group 🔴 Threat

Cybercriminals often organise themselves into specialised groups that carry out targeted attacks for the purposes of extortion, espionage or sabotage. Here is a list of the best-known groups, with their specialities and notable attacks.

Ethical hacker 🟩 Profession

An ethical hacker is a computer security expert who uses his or her skills in a legal and authorised manner to test and improve the security of computer systems.
This is often called a pentester.

Phishing 🔴 Attack

Phishing is a fraudulent technique that consists of usurping the identity of a trusted person or organisation (bank, administration, online service, etc.) in order to obtain sensitive personal information (login details, bank card numbers, etc.).

Malicious hypervisor 🔴 Attack

A malicious hypervisor, also known as a virtual-machine based rootkit (VMBR) or hypervisor rootkit, is a type of malicious software that attacks the virtualisation layer of a computer system.