Cyber X
Criminal Syndicates, Nation States, Subnational Entities, and Beyond
Information in this chapter
• Classifying the Cyber Actor
• Attack Sophistication Model
• Modus Operandi
• The Importance of Attribution
• Criminal and Organized Syndicates
• Nation States
• Subnational Entities
Introduction
The classification and categorization of nefarious cyber actors has moved well past the script kiddie. Fame and bragging rights on compromised systems and Website defacements are so passé and had their 15 minutes of fame. It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda. The entities that we are about to discuss ...
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