According to data analysis by computer security company CrowdStrike, Russian hacking attack team spares only 19 minutes to the victim to respond to the attack. The next fastest group were North-Koreans who took two hours to jump to the next server to spread the attack,the third on the list comes Chinese attackers who on average gives four hours to the victim to foil their target attack.
Statistically the calculated time is coined as “dubbed time“ and is the time attacker takes to jump from one network to another to spread the attack. Introducing the concept, CrowdStrike wrote in its report “shows how much time defenders have on average to detect an initial intrusion, investigate it and eject the attacker before sensitive data can be stolen or destroyed.”
According to the author, Pete Singer, the new analysis is eye-opening, "These stats are driven by a whole variety of factors, among them the skills and capability, the relative risk each is making in their likelihood of getting caught and the consequences. No matter how you look at it, an average of 18 minutes is quite amazing given the scale."
The Russians hackers have attacked many defense and military establishments throughout Europe and NATO since last year. Russian hackers were alleged to attack PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in 2018.
Chris Krebs, DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director, told defenseone.com recently, “We are doubling down on election security in advance of the 2020 election. Despite what some of the reporting might be, election security and countering foreign influence efforts aren’t going anywhere.”
According to a research from Arizona state University, researchers revealed that the exploiting a known vulnerability depended greatly on the country of the attacker.For Instance, the researchers looked at the Dark Web chat rooms , If attackers were discussing vulnerabilities in National Database and If the hackers discussing the bug were Chinese, the chances to exploit the vulnerability in question was nine percent, But if the conversation was between Russians, then the probability of exploiting vulnerability is forty percent.
