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Nation-state hackers from China, Russia and elsewhere spent last year updating their tradecraft and tightening their focus on espionage targets, according to a new CrowdStrike report examining the evolution of cyber-espionage in 2018. The year didn’t see a suspected state-sponsored cyberattack on the scale of 2017’s NotPetya or WannaCry ransomware campaigns, which researchers have suggested were the work of Russian and North Korean hackers, respectively. But in the absence of another headline-grabbing crime spree, international hackers sought to advance their boss’ interests in more subtle ways: by more carefully determining who to hack and moving more quickly once inside, CrowdStrike said. Chinese actors re-ignited their attacks against American targets amid a trade war with the U.S. Russia continued their reconnaissance efforts, while North Korea used digital techniques to generate cryptocurrency that would help Pyongyang avoid sanctions. Meanwhile, in Iran, state-sponsored hackers focused on domestic targets and rivals in the Middle […]

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