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Report: U.S. Industry Improving Cyber Attack Detection, Facing New Threats From Iranian Groups

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

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Report: U.S. Industry Improving Cyber Attack Detection, Facing New Threats From Iranian Groups

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U.S. industry is improving its ability to internally discover and mitigate cyber attacks directed at their networks, but new threats from Iranian actors may pose new challenges for the defense and aerospace sector, according to a new report.Cyber security company FireEye’s [FEYE] Mandiant group released its annual cyber trends report Wednesday, and named three new Iran-based threat actors poised to deliver advanced persistent intellectual property and data breach threats. Facing growing threats, the private sector has seen an uptick in the…

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