Threat actors

The attackers behind cyber attacks can be classified into the following categories:

• Cyber criminals
• Cyber terrorists
• Hacktivists

"What really concerns me is the sophistication of the capability, which is becoming good enough to really threaten parts of our critical infrastructure, certainly in the financial, banking sector."

– Director of Europol Robert Wainwright

Hacktivism

Hacktivism (https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/content/cyber-threat-source-descriptions#hack), as defined by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), refers to threat actors that depend on propaganda rather than damage to critical infrastructures. Their goal is to support their own political agenda...