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Initial access brokers (or IABs) are cyber threat actors who specialize in gaining unauthorized access to computer networks and systems and then selling that access to other threat actors such as ransomware. IABs are parts of ransomware as a service economy, also called "cybercrime as a service economy". [1] [2]
There are a number of threat actors including: cyber criminals, nation-state actors, ideologues, thrill seekers/trolls, insiders, and competitors. [3] These threat actors all have distinct motivations, techniques, targets, and uses of stolen data. [4] See Advanced persistent threats for a list of identified threat actors.
Expand the industrial base accessible through the IACs [8] See United States Cyber Command; To achieve these objectives, DTIC is forming new, consolidated IAC Basic Centers of Operation (BCOs). The BCOs are managed by both industry and academia. The DoD establishes IAC BCOs in areas of strategic importance, such as cyber security and ...
Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is a subfield of cybersecurity that focuses on the structured collection, analysis, and dissemination of data regarding potential or existing cyber threats. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It provides organizations with the insights necessary to anticipate, prevent, and respond to cyberattacks by understanding the behavior of threat ...
IATAC's mission, [5] like the other IACs in the DTIC IAC Program, is: “To provide the Department of Defense (DoD) a central point of access for information on IA and CS (IA/CS), emerging technologies in system vulnerabilities, research and development, models, and analysis to support the development and implementation of effective defense ...
AOL.com: What are the biggest threats facing the U.S. from a cybersecurity perspective? James A. Lewis: The biggest threats come from four countries: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. Russian ...
In 2015 Kaspersky's research findings on the Equation Group noted that its loader, "GrayFish", had similarities to a previously discovered loader, "Gauss", from another attack series, and separately noted that the Equation Group used two zero-day attacks later used in Stuxnet; the researchers concluded that "the similar type of usage of both exploits together in different computer worms, at ...
Convicted computer criminals are people who are caught and convicted of computer crimes such as breaking into computers or computer networks. [1] Computer crime can be broadly defined as criminal activity involving information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from ...