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Cloud storage cost challenges and how to tackle them – ComputerWeekly.com
Cloud storage is often positioned as a way to save money. Firms can reduce their overheads by using the public cloud to replace datacentres, hardware and even staff or so the story goes.
In reality, those cost savings can be hard to achieve. Some of the features that make the cloud attractive including its ability to scale up quickly can make costs harder to control. And with more organisations pursuing a multicloud or hybrid cloud strategy, CIOs need to be sure that operational flexibility doesnt come at too high a price.
A recent research report, the Enterprise cloud index from Nutanix, found that 64% of organisations expect to operate in multicloud environments within three years. At the same time, 43% said that managing costs across environments is a challenge. Those surveyed also said they expected moving workloads between clouds would increase costs.
The cloud offers almost unlimited capacity, and the flexibility for organisations to pay for the resources they need. These are key benefits to the cloud. Firms are not constrained by the need to build datacentres, and they dont or shouldnt pay for capacity they do not need.
But, as with any other rental agreement, there is a price for flexibility. And cloud providers reward customers who can commit up front, or commit for a longer period of time, with discounts. This makes it harder for IT departments to predict pricing, and some experts argue, overturns the pay-as-you-go model of cloud.
The economic model of the cloud is essentially that the more you can commit to use, the better the deal will be, says Stephen Edwards, a digital expert at PA Consulting. It is not really that different to a mobile phone contract. If you commit to a higher [volume], they will give you a better discount.
This, says Patrick Smith, chief technology officer (CTO) for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at storage provider Pure Storage, is pushing buyers to signing up to larger contracts. They are potentially over-buying, or moving too quickly to the cloud. One thing with those [contracts] is organisations have to adopt at a certain rate, he says. If you dont adopt fast enough the discount diminishes. If organisations fail to onboard to the cloud quickly enough, they face additional costs.
Added to this is a tendency for the larger cloud providers to promote proprietary technologies that lock buyers in. If it is harder for firms to move between suppliers, they are less likely to be able to consolidate their requirements with a single supplier or use the threat of switching to drive down costs.
This is reinforced by the different architectures and approaches used by cloud providers. Suppliers have their own views of best practice that make it harder to move between clouds and to create a setup that works equally well across multiple clouds.
The situation is made worse by the ease of cloud purchasing because almost anyone can spin up cloud resources, it is hard for IT departments to maintain control.
The key challenge in cloud cost management is visibility into the consumption and use of cloud services. For many organisations, adoption of cloud services happens in a decentralised way, says Nick Heudecker, a director at Cribl, a company that helps organisations sift through their IT data.
Another aspect of visibility is simply understanding the bill at the end of the month from your chosen cloud service providers, he says. The decentralised nature of cloud consumption in most organisations makes deciphering bills difficult, if not impossible.
Then there is the issue of the underlying pricing itself. Cloud pricing is far from transparent.
According to Aran Khanna, CEO of Archera, a cloud pricing specialist, Amazons pricing data alone is a 2GB JSON file. This makes comparisons difficult. You cant just load that up and then put in the Azure pricing sheet, he says. This is why when you look at large enterprises cloud management teams, they have three or four data scientists sitting there. It is no longer an Excel job.
Perhaps the biggest challenges facing firms using the cloud is accurately forecasting demand, and then ensuring what is bought is actually being used.
From a cloud perspective, the real challenge is cost predictability, says Paul Walker, EMEA technical director at iManage, which provides tools for knowledge workers on top of Azure.
The key questions that CIOs get asked when trying to build a business case for moving to the cloud is how much will it cost us annually, over two years and so forth? Also, does a scalable solution mean that our costs will fluctuate month on month and year on year?
A key source of overspending is buying more capacity than the project or business needs. Forecasting helps here, although it is an inexact science as part of the point of the cloud is to be able to add capacity quickly.
Can you make [usage] more predictable? You can do planning based on what you expect to use on the platform, but the issue is its just too easy to add capacity, warns Oscar Arean, head of operations at cloud service provider Databarracks.
If someone in the past needed additional compute, theyd ask the IT department and might decide it is not worth the cost, he added. With the cloud, unless there are clear purchasing controls, it is all too easy for developers and others to add compute, memory or even storage.
Waste also occurs through keeping capacity running once a task has finished, or through failing to use the scalability features of the cloud platform. One of the big buckets we look at is waste, says Aran Khanna at Archera. You have to shut stuff down or resize it.
This means finding redundant test-and-dev servers, and taking them offline. Firms should look to scale down systems out-of-hours or during less busy periods. And extending this to storage, firms can move less frequently accessed data to cheaper storage tiers or dedicated archiving products. Business units face hardware limits with on-premise technology. With the cloud, it is too easy to add capacity without considering the cost.
This needs active management to flex services up and down according to business requirements, says Terry Storrar, managing director at Leaseweb UK.
Organisations also need to update their architectural approaches to suit the cloud. Not all firms are ready for cloud-native technology such as Kubernetes.
Nonetheless, the worst option is to recreate existing infrastructure in the cloud. Unlike local hardware, cloud systems do not need to be built for usage peaks as they can scale quickly. Virtualisation is less useful than it is on-premise, and it can be costly when virtual machines are using resources all the time. The cloud provides easier and cheaper backup and business continuity systems, even across geographies.
Experts suggest that potential savings of 30-40% are possible through better planning and management, optimising architecture for the cloud, and better purchasing.
One of the advantages of cloud architecture is that solutions can be very easily procured, says iManages Paul Walker. The challenge is to ensure a level of adoption that delivers the return on investment.
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(New Report) Cloud Fax Market In 2022 : The Increasing use in Individual and Home Office, Small and Medium Enterprises, Large Enterprises, Global is…
[98 Pages Report] Cloud Fax Market Insights 2022 Cloud Fax is a simple, cost-effective cloud-based alternative to traditional fax machines and servers. Suitable for organizations of all sizes, it provides a streamlined faxing process, while substantially lowering your overall faxing costs. It lets you send and receive faxes to and from anywhere in the world via email and is fully compatible with all email platforms. It is secure, reliable and eliminates the need for fax machines, toner, paper, fax servers or dedicated fax lines.
Cloud Fax is mainly used by three groups: Individual and home officeSmall and Medium EnterprisesLarge Enterprises Issuers and Investors. And Large Enterprises are the most widely used group which takes up about 49.48% of the global market in 2016.
North America is the largest sales region of Cloud Fax market in the world in the past few years. North America market took up about 56.91% the global market in 2016, while Europe was 22.26%.
North America is now the key developers of Cloud Fax market. There are several companiessuch as OpenTextCenturyLinkeFax Corporate and TELUS.
OpenTextCenturyLinkEskereFax CorporateBiscomTELUS and Retarus are the key suppliers in the global Cloud Fax market. Top 3 took up about 56.59% of the global market in 2016.
Scope of the Cloud Fax Market Report :
In 2019, The Worldwide Cloud Fax market size was USD 516.7 million and it is expected to reach USD 1034 million by the end of 2026, with a CAGR of 10.3% during 2021-2026.
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Cloud Fax Market Type Segment Analysis (Market size available for years 2022-2026, Consumption Volume, Average Price, Revenue, Market Share and Trend 2015-2027): Fax from the Desktop, Fax from Email, Fax from Web
Regions that are expected to dominate the Cloud Fax market are North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa and others
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Ninja Van Goes the Extra Mile with Google Cloud to Fulfill Vision of Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Logistics Management for Businesses in Southeast Asia -…
Ninja Van Goes the Extra Mile with Google Cloud to Fulfill Vision of Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Logistics Management for Businesses in Southeast Asia
Extended collaboration will support Ninja Van's strategy for secure and sustainable expansion, while maximizing the potential of its technology talent
SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ninja Van, Southeast Asia's leading logistics provider, is extending its multi-year collaboration with Google Cloud to help businesses seize digital growth opportunities and overcome supply chain disruptions. By running its platform and applications on Google Cloud's scalable, secure and open-source infrastructure, Ninja Van aims to strengthen its leadership in last-mile courier services and expand upstream into supply chain management solutions.
Backed by the likes of Europe's largest parcel delivery network GeoPost / DPDgroup and global investment firm B Capital, Ninja Van has operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It is now the trusted delivery partner for close to two million businesses and handles around two million parcels daily across Southeast Asia. To facilitate onshore or nearshore production and distribution for businesses, Ninja Van recently launched Ninja Direct, a procurement concierge that covers supplier sourcing and management, customs clearance, financing, and shipments tracking.
"Retailers have shifted toward e-commerce strategies as opposed to selling through physical stores, especially with the pandemic forcing consumers to shop online more than ever before. With disruptions to the traditional flow of raw materials and finished goods, there's also an urgent need for adaptive micro supply chains that allow businesses to 'make where they sell' and fulfill orders quicker," said Shaun Chong, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Ninja Van. "We chose Google Cloud because of its proven ability to help us scale reliably and innovate at high velocity, as we address the region's end-to-end logistics management needs."
Freeing Up Talent to Drive Innovation and Impact
Ninja Van consistently evaluates whether it is making efficient use of its technical talent. This means determining how the cloud can empower its 150 engineers, developers and data scientists to build products that add value to the business, instead of spending time managing complex IT infrastructure.
With Google's open cloud approach, Ninja Van's technical teams are free to choose the tools they need to accelerate software development and scale more efficiently while also reducing technology risk. For instance, by using Google Cloud's open-source data processing platform which integrates seamlessly with its data scientists' preferred external data visualization tools, Ninja Van's teams can comfortably process terabytes of data daily to support the company's business needs.
To create its NinjaChat chatbot and simulate the quality and immediacy of in-person interactions, Ninja Van's developers turned to Google Cloud's open-source and pre-built virtual agents to bring the feature to life in a month, rather than spend three months building a machine learning framework from scratch.
"From a chatbot that enhances customer experiences to algorithms for fuel-saving route optimization these are amongst the hundreds of new features released by Ninja Van each day. By automating application deployment and upgrades using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), our technical teams can avoid engaging in manual backend configurations and stay laser-focused on innovation," said Chong.
"We're actively hiring to bolster our technology teams in the region. Once we have the talent in the door, it makes zero sense to have them recreate code that exists and is ready-to-use, or manually select servers with the right vCPUs or RAM to deploy each application. Google Cloud puts open-source at the center of its solutions, while GKE does a great job at making sure things happen automatically. These allow us to avoid lock-in, reduce costs and truly give our in-house talent the ability to make more meaningful contributions to the business," added Chong.
Security and Zero Downtime to Enable 24/7 Operations
Southeast Asia's e-commerce gross merchandise value is expected to reach US$234 billion by 2025. As Ninja Van continues to help retailers compete in this fast-growing market and expand its services upstream, reliability and data protection remain top priorities.
The demand for Ninja Van's services have grown by three times during the pandemic. Whether it is preparing for major online sales events like Singles' Day, responding to sudden surges in demand because of merchants running ad hoc campaigns, or making thousands of software upgrades each year, Google Cloud's dynamic autoscaling capabilities enable Ninja Van's website and mobile applications to handle 10 times the normal traffic with a smooth user experience, before scaling down to reduce costs when additional computing resources are no longer needed.
"Having benefited from security solutions that are designed by default into Google Cloud's infrastructure, such as end-to-end encryption and automated patching, we will now work with Google Cloud's security specialists on additional ways to reinforce our zero trust security model," said Chong.
"We're proud to have played a part in Ninja Van becoming a leading end-to-end logistics management provider and one of the most admired technology unicorns," said Ruma Balasubramanian, Managing Director, Southeast Asia, Google Cloud. "By investing in world-class talent and relentless innovation, the company is well-positioned to deliver the just-in-time production and distribution capabilities that businesses need to satisfy contemporary consumers' desire for product variety and immediacy. Google Cloud will continue to uphold our high standards in reliability, collaboration, openness and security, as we support Ninja Van's vision of connecting Southeast Asia to a world of commerce possibilities."
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About Ninja Van
Ninja Van is a leading tech-enabled express logistics company providing supply chain solutions for businesses of all sizes across Southeast Asia. Launched in 2014, Ninja Van started operations in Singapore as a last-mile logistics company. Since then, it has become one of the region's fastest-growing tech logistics companies, powering businesses with innovative solutions that optimize e-commerce opportunities. Today, Ninja Van has grown its network to cover six countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. For more information, visit http://www.ninjavan.co.
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Ad Insertion Servers Market 2021 Industry Size, Business Growth, Demand, and Forecast to 2028 | Adobe Systems, Anevia SAS, ARRIS International,…
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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers | IBM
Today, available compute options for cloud services go beyond just bare metalservers and cloud servers.Containersare becoming a default infrastructure choice for manycloud-nativeapplications. Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings have an important niche of the applications market for developers who don't want to manage an OS or runtime environment. Andserverless computingis emerging as the model of choice for cloud purists.
But, when evaluating bare metal servers, users still gravitate toward the comparison to virtual servers. For most companies, the criteria for choice are application specific or workload specific. It's extremely common for a company to use a mix of bare metal servers along withvirtualizedresources across their cloud environment.
Virtual servers are the more common model of cloud computing because they offer greater resource density, faster provisioning times, and the ability to scale up and down quickly as needs dictate. But bare metalservers are the right fit for a few primary use cases that take advantage of the combination of attributes. These attributes are dedicated resources, greater processing power, and more consistent disk and network I/O performance.
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IBM To Offer z/OS App Development and Testing in Its Public Cloud – Data Center Knowledge
IBM is planning to offer its experimental cloud-based mainframe application development and testing platform as a commercial service.
Called Wazi as-a-Service (Wazi aaS), it delivers z/OS-based virtual server instances using IBM Clouds logically isolated Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure.
IBM says access to the service can be arranged in as little as six minutes, and it performs up to 15x faster than comparable x86 dev and test alternatives in its own cloud data centers.
Wazi aaS is expected to be generally available in the second half of 2022.
The announcement ties into the companys wider mainframe modernization efforts that saw a launch of a dedicated online hub at the end of 2021.
IBM recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to modernization, said Tarun Chopra, Vice President, IBM Z Hybrid Cloud. "By leveraging both IBM Z and IBM Cloud, clients can benefit from a hybrid cloud approach that allows them to capitalize on the innovations, technical advancements, security, resiliency of each platform.
Mainframes are a common sight in banking, insurance, and retail, thanks to their ability to efficiently process huge volumes of transactions, and their reputation for security and uptime.
In a 2021 BMC survey of more than 1,300 mainframe executives and technicians, 92% of respondents said they saw the mainframe as a platform for long-term growth and new workloads.
But in order to run those workloads, the mainframe has to change its ways. For most of its history, the architecture has been very rigid which makes sense, when it has to be capable of running code written more than 50 years ago.
The evolution of the mainframe is well underway; in recent years these machines have embraced Linux, containerized workloads built with popular tools like Docker and RedHats OpenShift, and learned to interact with public cloud resources.
The latest step in IBMs cloud-friendly strategy will enable developers to write code for mainframes and test it in a convenient, pay-as-you-go environment, without having to waste any of the physical mainframes valuable resources.
The virtual server instances are created with Wazi Image Builder and can be either preinstalled with popular software or fully customized to individual organizations requirements.
Wazi aaS presents a much more palatable alternative to IBM Z Development and Test Environment (ZD&T), which enables users to run mainframe applications on x86 PCs and servers including public cloud servers from AWS and Microsoft but is accompanied by a long disclaimer that states the software cannot be used for production workloads of any kind, nor robust development workloads, production module builds, pre-production testing, stress testing, or performance testing.
To understand just how revolutionary Wazi as-a-Service is, we can point to the fact that a single Personal Edition license for ZD&T costs upwards of $5,000.
In the future, IBM intends to expand on IBM Wazi as-a-Service capabilities to provide a complete modern cloud native developer experience for IBM z/OS that would be consistent and familiar to all developers, the company said in its statement of direction.
IBMs attempts to recapture the mainframe modernization concept come at a time when it is facing increasing competition from public cloud vendors, for which mainframe modernization means replacing traditional mainframe hardware with virtual machines.
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FileShadow Releases App to Provide Access and Management of FileShadow Cloud Vault for Android Phones and Tablets – Business Wire
PROVO, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FileShadow users can manage their files from their Android devices through FileShadows new app. With FileShadow, users can collect, organize and share files through any Android device, their desktop, cloud services and more. The service provides complete file management from a phone or a tablet and is available on Google Play.
The new FileShadow app for Android joins the family of existing FileShadow apps available for Apple iPhones and iPads, macOS desktops, Windows desktops and all popular browsers.
Terabytes of your files can now be immediately accessible from your Android tablet or phone, said Tyrone Pike, president and CEO of FileShadow. Through the new app, users can manage all their filesphotos, videos, email and other documentsas if they were stored on their devices, but they dont have to download the files to search, categorize, update or manage them. FileShadow allows them to place any file on their phone directly to the FileShadow Vault. Its a great way to protect important photos or videos and share them with others, safely and securely.
Users can share images and documents to and from their photos, text messages or file system directly to their FileShadow Cloud Vault. They can also find any file or photo in their vault and download it to their device. Customers can also publish collections of files from their FileShadow Vault by generating shareable links to an individual file or a private web page. The FileShadow Publish feature is a simple and secure way for families/friends/groups to organize, store and share important documents with others.
Everything in your FileShadow Vault can now be controlled through a mobile device, said Pike. Customers can manage collections, apply tags, view and publish files, and manage their account from the app.
FileShadow recently released an iOS App for cloud file management on iPhones and iPads. In November 2021, the company provided support for archiving email messages and attachments from Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Gmail, iCloud Mail, Yahoo! Mail, and generic IMAP servers into its cloud file archive. Those messages and attachments can be organized, searched and published, along with other files from disparate storage locations.
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The FileShadow service aggregates files from cloud storage accounts (Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobes Lightroom solutions, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive and Slack); email (Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Gmail, iCloud Mail, Yahoo! Mail and IMAP servers); local storage (macOS, Windows Desktops, Windows Virtual Desktops); mobile devices (iOS and Android); and network and direct-attached storage (NAS/DAS) devices.
Using machine learning, FileShadow provides superior indexing and searching capabilities. With FileShadow, users can quickly find any file with advanced search features such as file content, OCR of PDFs, and GPS location and image searches. FileShadow is hosted on Google Cloud with storage provided by Wasabis Hot Cloud Storage, providing 11 nines of durability for optimal file protection.
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LogicMonitor Expands Reach in Legal Industry Through Strategic Opportunity with HBR Consulting’s Managed Services – Business Wire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based observability and IT operations data collaboration platform for enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs), today announced a partnership with HBR Consulting (HBR), as a vertical lead to the legal industry. Having recently acquired Keno Kozie, HBR is the industrys largest, most comprehensive strategy, operations and technology consulting firm focused on the legal industry, and is well positioned to meet the increasing demand for legal technology expertise across the legal ecosystem. The partnership between the two companies provides HBR and its clients with access to cutting-edge cloud-based observability and monitoring technology, while expanding LogicMonitors reach within the legal industry.
With the legal industrys growing reliance on the cloud, effective monitoring is critical to provide uptime and visibility for the industry, said Chris Petrini-Poli, Executive Chairman, HBR Consulting. There is an increasing need for robust solutions to monitor networks, servers and cloud tools. HBR and Keno Kozie are delighted to partner with LogicMonitor, the clear leader in this area, so we can continue to provide our legal clients with best-in-class IT support.
In 2020, nearly two-thirds of lawyers reported using the cloud for work-related purposes. Law firms are increasingly moving to the cloud to enhance their ability to function in a remote environment, broaden collaboration options, and improve security and disaster recovery. Effectively monitoring cloud environments is critical to a firms ability to realize those benefits.
HBR and Keno Kozie are currently migrating legacy monitoring platforms to LogicMonitor in their network operating center (NOC). LogicMonitors cloud architecture allows HBR/Keno Kozie to quickly onboard new clients, leverage automation as needed, and rapidly adapt to changes within a clients environment. The platform will enable HBR/Keno Kozie to easily scale services across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments, providing a future-proof solution that scales with client expectations. LogicMonitors custom dashboard and reporting functionality will provide HBRs and Keno Kozies NOC and clients with granular, real-time insight into network issues and performance. Through the combination of LogicMonitors end-to-end observability platform and HBR/Keno Kozie engineers, the firm is able to quickly identify and respond to events and alerts before they lead to outages, and thus preserve the end customer experience.
We look forward to working and innovating with HBR to further meet the legal industrys needs, said Michael Tarbet, Vice President, Global Head of MSPs, LogicMonitor. We recognize the power in aligning with companies who have established trust within their industries. Partnering with HBR extends LogicMonitors availability through a trusted IT managed services provider who has strong ties within their key markets.
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TA2451 targets aviation and transport sector with tailored lures – ComputerWeekly.com
Threat analysts at Proofpoint are today publishing details of a persistent cyber criminal actor that targets organisations in the aviation, aerospace, transport and defence industries with specifically tailored, transportation-themed phishes, such as quotes for parts or fuel, or requests for information on private charters, and avoids trending news topics and other more common lures.
Although the group has been active and tracked for about five years, enough data has now come to light for its various activities to be linked in a single threat activity cluster. Proofpoint has designated it TA2541, and other research units, such as Cisco Talos, have also been on its tail.
Proofpoint assessed the group as a financially motivated cyber criminal actor because it prefers commodity malware, broad targeting with high-volume messages, and command and control infrastructure.
What is noteworthy about TA2541 is how little theyve changed their approach to cyber crime over the past five years, repeatedly using the same themes, often related to aviation, aerospace and transportation to distribute remote access trojans, said Sherrod DeGrippo, Proofpoints VP of threat research and detection. This group is a persistent threat to targets throughout the transportation, logistics and travel industries.
TA2541 targets its victims with remote access trojans (Rats) delivered initially through macro-laden Microsoft Word documents, although it has now pivoted to using malicious files hosted on cloud hosting services, with Google Drive particularly favoured.
Of late, it has also started using DiscordApp URLs, and Proofpoint has assessed that Discord is becoming increasingly popular as a content delivery network (CDN). It has also been known to send malicious files as email attachments, although this is rarer.
Typically, TA2451 will use a visual basic script (VBS) file to establish persistence with its payload. It seems especially fond of AsyncRAT malware, but it has used more than 17 commodity malwares in the past. Its most favoured strains including NetWire, WSH Rat and Parallax, but also the likes of Imminent Monitor and AgentTesla.
The group uses virtual private servers to send its emails and has often been seen using Dynamic DDS (DDNS) for command and control (C2) infrastructure. Proofpoint said it had found multiple repeating patterns in the C2 infrastructure and message artefacts, including the use of three key terms, kimjoy, h0pe and grace, in its domains and payload staging URLs. It has also been known to favour the same domain registrars, making use of the likes of Netdorm and No-IP DDNS, and hosting providers such as xTom and Danilenko Artyom.
Analysis of its various campaigns appears to show that TA2451 uses a rather untargeted approach to acquiring its victims, blasting several thousand email messages to dozens of organisations in one go. Nor does it go after people with specific roles or functions, such as finance or human resources. Many thousands of organisations are thought to have been targeted over the years.
TA2451 remains a consistent, active threat, especially to entities in its most frequently targeted sectors, wrote Proofpoints analysts. Proofpoint assesses with high confidence that this threat actor will continue using the same TTPs observed in historic activity with minimal change to its lure themes, delivery and installation.
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