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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by sokoloff on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:20AM (#16848144)
To save some googling, as neither this article nor the Akamai report defined “APT”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat

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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by tbihl on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:42AM (#16848891)
At this point, if you're reading an Akamai report, APT probably stands alone as a term. On a list of abbreviations their readers should know, it's not quite 'IP address', but surely it's ahead of 'DNS'.
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