Advanced Persistent Threat Brief: Sandworm Team
by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Discover the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by one of the world's most prolific threat groups, Sandworm, and how to mitigate them.
What you'll learn
Sandworm is a destructive threat group that has been attributed to Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, Special Technologies military unit. Active since at least 2009, the group is responsible for attacks against critical infrastructure in Ukraine and the Winter Olympics in South Korea, as well as the global distribution of the destructive malware, Not-Petya. In this course, Advanced Persistent Threat Brief: Sandworm Team, you’ll begin to explore the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by the group to conduct these campaigns, and learn that in many cases there are easily applied mitigations to prevent or detect them
About the author
Matt is a cyber security author and researcher here at Pluralsight. A certified penetration tester and incident handler, he created Pluralsight's CompTIA Pentest+ Specialized Attacks courses as well our courses on wireless, ICS/OT and hardware hacking. Matt has also helped to build our security labs portfolio; labs that help you get hands-on to understand the threats and vulnerabilities your organization faces today. With a background in Chemical Engineering, Matt's focus is on the security ... moreof Operational Technology, and particularly Industrial Control Systems. With the explosive growth of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things, Matt is passionate about educating the next generation of cyber security professionals to front up to the challenges faced by critical national infrastructure organizations around the world.