VERY IMPORTANT

After an extensive investigation, which revealed a widespread campaign targeting multiple universities, Accenture’s iDefense unit is publishing this report to provide threat indicators and mitigation approaches to help organizations defend themselves and ensure cyber resilience against this threat group. It’s imperative to highlight the third-party risk and supply chain threat from advanced cyber adversaries. Organizations need to understand that espionage actors will seek to exploit any organization within a target’s supply chain to fulfill its strategic collection requirements.