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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.
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]
Businesses and investors can expect to face a growing number of sophisticated cyber threats that could be even more disruptive and difficult to prevent. 5 emerging cybersecurity threats facing the ...
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 ...
BlackCat-affiliated threat actors typically request ransom payments of several million dollars in Bitcoin and Monero and have accepted ransom payments below the initial ransom demand amount. According to the FBI , many of the developers and money launderers for BlackCat/ALPHV are linked to DarkSide/Blackmatter , indicating they have extensive ...
Cyber threat actors are leveraging AI in ways that have a tremendous impact at cloud scale. This is perhaps most visible in social-engineering-based attacks. According to KnowBe4, at least 70% of ...
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 ...
AOL.com:Is there an issue or threat you think is not discussed often enough in the public? James A. Lewis: One problem for the U.S. is that we don't know how to respond to cyber attacks.