When Nation-States Stop Caring About Size

At RSAC 2026, Symantec Fellow Eric Chien warned that nation-state actors are increasingly targeting organizations of all sizes by leveraging supply chains and abusing legitimate tools, cloud services, and valid credentials to blend into normal activity; the report profiles China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran, outlines their motivations and tactics (IP theft, extortion, ransomware, destructive attacks, use of contractors/deepfakes), and recommends unified endpoint/network/data visibility (Symantec CBX) to detect correlated suspicious activity.