
A research team led by the University of Washington (UW) was awarded a $7.5 million five-year Defense Department Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) to better model and defend against advanced persistent threat (APT)-style cyberattacks, the university said Friday.The team’s proposal is one of 23 MURI awards the department announced Friday, totaling $162 million. The awards support research by teams of investigators that intersect with over one traditional science and engineering subject to accelerate research progress, the department said in a…