A threat actor, bad actor or malicious actor is either a person or a group of people that take part in an action that is intended to cause harm to the cyber realm including: computers, devices, systems, or networks.[1] The term is typically used to describe individuals or groups that perform malicious acts against a person or an organization of any type or size. Threat actors engage in cyber related offenses to exploit open vulnerabilities and disrupt operations.[2] Threat actors have different educational backgrounds, skills, and resources.[1] The frequency and classification of cyber attacks changes rapidly. The background of threat actors helps dictate who they target, how they attack, and what information they seek. 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.
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physical threats and threatactors that is intended to help mitigate potential attacks and harmful events occurring in cyberspace. Cyber threat intelligence...
campaign as 'Ducktail' and found evidence to suggest that a Vietnamese threatactor has been developing and distributing the malware with motives appeared...
potential threats, such as, but not limited to, lateral movement by threatactors. To be even more effective and efficient, however, threat hunting can...
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further test papers. Upon inspecting data shared online by the unknown threatactor(s), vx-underground, a group dedicated to investigating malware and cybersecurity...
Commission stating that a "suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threatactor" gained access to Change Healthcare's information technology system....
persistent threatactor believed to be working on behalf of the Russian SVR. Journalist Thomas Claburn suggested that it could be any state actor or a non-state...
applications to augment threat data. This enables the SOC and IR teams to have as much data as possible regarding a certain threatactor, his capabilities,...
operates advanced persistent threat (APT) number 40. The Hainan State Security Department is behind the advanced persistent threat known as APT40. In May 2021...
threatactor malware platforms collaborating to create the different versions of Stuxnet. The collaboration was dubbed 'GOSSIP GIRL' after a threat group...
across 54 countries. VPNFilter essentially acted as a "kill switch" the threatactor could pull at any time to render the device useless. The FBI would go...
that also performs cryptomining, believed to be tied to the Chinese threatactor "Iron". Xbash is able to propagate like a worm and deletes databases...
them as having a double threat - both encrypting data and exfiltrating it and threatening to publish it. Ransomware threatactors use different techniques...
cyber threatactors who specialize in gaining unauthorized access to computer networks and systems and then selling that access to other threatactors such...
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United States. FireEye has called the group "the overlooked North Korean threatactor." The group is believed to have been founded sometime around 2012, according...
their passwords. In 2015, Kaspersky identified a highly sophisticated threatactor that it called "The Equation Group". The group incorporated sophisticated...
Equation Group, classified as an advanced persistent threat, is a highly sophisticated threatactor suspected of being tied to the Tailored Access Operations...
Commission stating that a "suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threatactor" gained access to Change Healthcare's information technology system....