Identifying Vulnerabilities in APT Attacks: A Simulated Approach
| Title | Identifying Vulnerabilities in APT Attacks: A Simulated Approach |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Nicho, M., Oluwasegun, A., Kamoun, F. |
| Conference Name | 2018 9th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-5386-3662-6 |
| Keywords | advanced persistent threat attacks, advanced persistent threats, antivirus software, APT attacks, APT threat vectors, Browsers, cyber-attacks, Firewalls (computing), Human Behavior, Malware, Metrics, mitigation, multiple simulated attacks, operating system, Payloads, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, security of data, spearphishing, Tools, Universal Serial Bus, virtualized environment, vulnerabilities |
| Abstract | This research aims to identify some vulnerabilities of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks using multiple simulated attacks in a virtualized environment. Our experimental study shows that while updating the antivirus software and the operating system with the latest patches may help in mitigating APTs, APT threat vectors could still infiltrate the strongest defenses. Accordingly, we highlight some critical areas of security concern that need to be addressed. |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8328696 |
| DOI | 10.1109/NTMS.2018.8328696 |
| Citation Key | nicho_identifying_2018 |
- multiple simulated attacks
- vulnerabilities
- virtualized environment
- Universal Serial Bus
- tools
- spearphishing
- security of data
- Scalability
- Resiliency
- pubcrawl
- Payloads
- operating system
- advanced persistent threat attacks
- mitigation
- Metrics
- malware
- Human behavior
- Firewalls (computing)
- cyber-attacks
- Browsers
- APT threat vectors
- APT attacks
- antivirus software
- advanced persistent threats