Deon la Grange from FireEye confirmed that there are six steps to describe the anatomy of a cyber-attack: * The cyber-criminal, or threat actor, gains entry through an email, network, file, or application vulnerability and inserts malware into an organisations network. The target is now compromised. * The advanced malware probes for additional network access, vulnerabilities, or communicates with command and control (CnC) websites to receive additional instructions and/or malicious code. * The malware typically establishes additional breach points to ensure that the cyber-attack can continue if one point is closed. * Once a threat actor has established network access, they begin to gather data, such as account names and passwords. Once the attacker cracks the passwords, they can now identify and access data. * Data is collected on a staging server, then the data is ex-filtrated. A data breach is now occurring.