The types of attacks are increasingly blurring as new players and regions enter the landscape. “There are so many [of these] attacks going on now,” says Greg Hoglund, CEO of HBGary, who says his firm is tracking around 18 different APT groups. The long-term access these techniques enable allows the attacker to steal more lucrative data over a longer period of time to gain access to more lucrative tax returns. “Smash-and-grab attacks are few and far between: It’s all about persistency: You hear a lot about espionage and APT attacks””]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/apt-type-attack-a-moving-target