Line Between Nation-State, Criminal Hackers Increasingly Blurred: Report

itman · Feb 26, 2018

The line between the level of sophistication typically exhibited by state-sponsored threat groups and cybercriminals became increasingly blurred in the past year, according to CrowdStrike’s 2018 Global Threat Report.

CrowdStrike has analyzed various aspects of the cybersecurity landscape in the past year, including targeted attacks launched by nation state actors, the tools and operations of cybercriminals, hacktivism, law enforcement campaigns, and the effectiveness of attacks and defense mechanisms.

According to the security firm, there are several factors that led to the leveling of the playing field, but one of the most significant is the so-called “trickle-down effect.” This product adoption model states that a product initially too expensive for the masses eventually gets cheap enough for the general public to acquire.
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https://www.securityweek.com/line-between-nation-state-criminal-hackers-increasingly-blurred-report

RockLobster · Feb 26, 2018

WannaCry and NotPetya attacks believed to have been launched by North Korea and Russia
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N.Korea and Russia must have really wanted to push die hard XP users into upgrading then, because that was about the only thing acheived by that.

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