Which of the following threat actors Is MOST likely involved?

A company security engineer arrives at work to face the following scenario:

1) Website defacement

2) Calls from the company president indicating the website needs to be fixed Immediately because It Is damaging the brand

3) A Job offer from the company’s competitor

4) A security analyst’s investigative report, based on logs from the past six months, describing how lateral movement across the network from various IP addresses originating from a foreign adversary country resulted in exfiltrated data

Which of the following threat actors Is MOST likely involved?
A . Organized crime
B . Script kiddie
C . APT/nation-state
D . Competitor

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Answer: C