The concept of the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) was coined in 2006 by the US Department of Defense. The term has been co-opted for diverse needs, the mere mention of the concept is cringe inducing for many. The focus shifts to collecting and grouping the methodologies and approaches into threat groups The solution is to embrace and promote the evolution of APT to the threat we actually face today: advanced threat actors working in groups. The goal was to identify the specific unit, team or (in a perfect world) the individual threat actor involved in the cyber activity.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2158775/why-you-need-to-embrace-the-evolution-of-apt.html