Insider threat individuals are typically split into two types of actors: Pawns: Pawns are company employees manipulated into carrying out malicious activity, such as disclosing their user credentials or downloading malware. Pawns are often targeted by attackers throughsocial engineeringorspear-phishingcampai...
Inside agents, also referred to asmoles,collusive threatsorcollaborators, are malicious insider threat actors who use their access credentials to steal information for or carry out attacks on behalf of external threat actors. These insider threats may be involved in bribery or blackmail. Fraud is...
The term “insider threat” might conjure images of hoodie-cloaked hackers, bribed by bad actors to install malware on their employer’s systems. But “insider threat” refers to any kind of cybersecurity hazard caused by employee behavior, whether tha
Threat actors primarily target large organizations for monetary gain, data, and sensitive intelligence, or to cause service disruption and reputational harm. However, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have also becomefrequent targetsfor threat actors because their relative lack of resources can ...
The threat actors -- often cybercriminals -- that control these botnets use them to send email spam, engage inclick fraudcampaigns and generate malicious traffic for distributed denial-of-service attacks. Botnet attacks hijack computing resources from unsuspecting victims and harness them for ...
Insider Threats. An organization insider may, willingly or unknowingly, help external threat actors to facilitate a ransomware attack. Ransomware-as-a-Service(RaaS) is a business model where cyber criminals lease access to pre-developed ransomware tools. Once their affiliates successfully deploy the ra...
Nation states and governments frequently fund threat actors with the goal of stealing sensitive data, gathering confidential information or disrupting another government’s critical infrastructure. These malicious activities often include espionage or cyberwarfare and tend to be highly funded, making the th...
Before diving into specific types of cyberattacks, let's first discuss some of the motivations behind why threat actors would look to wreak havoc on a security organization. Cybercrime This category includes efforts by threat actors to profit from malicious attacks, and can be subcategorized into ...
If a ransomware attack targets your organization, you can use your backup copies instead of paying the ransom. Conclusion In this article, we covered 16 common cybersecurity attacks including: Data breaches - unauthorized access and theft of data by threat actors. Cross site scripting (XSS) -...
Insider Threat Attack Insider threats are a form of attack that actually originates from inside the organization. Because insiders often have access to a wide range of sensitive data, especially in small to medium businesses, they have the potential to cause severe damage to an organization. The...