Russia-linked actors need just 18 minutes to go from initial compromise to lateral movement within the network. That s almost eight times faster than second-ranked North Korea-linked threats. Financial crime rings have the slowest average breakout time of all adversaries, at nine hours and 42 minutes. China-linked APTs were the most active and prolific adversaries observed in 2018, CrowdStrike’s 2019 Global Threat Report found. Chinese nation-state actors like Deep Panda averaged about four hours, and Iranian nation-states like Charming Kitten came in around five hours.
Source: https://threatpost.com/apt-adversaries-speed-telecom/141996/