Cybercrime dominated by 50 groups
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 01/25/2014 11:45 AM
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A report from monitoring firm CrowdStrike has identified a core of around 50 active groups involved in Cybercrime in 2013 that included Russian and Chinese "threat actors".
”Whatever the motivation may be, having private groups carry out malicious activity has advantages for nation-states,” said CrowdStrike, which listed a major motivation as being plausible deniability.
Emissary Panda appears to be a recently-formed group. They seem to be targeting the high-tech sector, defense firms, and embassies.
Energetic Bear has been going after energy-sector firms. Energetic Bear has been active in 23 countries and has created 25 versions of one to its preferred Remote Access Trojans (RATs), Havex. Beyond energy firms, targets have included European governments and defence sector firms, engineering firms, and European, US and Asian academics, CrowdStrike said.
”Whatever the motivation may be, having private groups carry out malicious activity has advantages for nation-states,” said CrowdStrike, which listed a major motivation as being plausible deniability.
Emissary Panda appears to be a recently-formed group. They seem to be targeting the high-tech sector, defense firms, and embassies.
Energetic Bear has been going after energy-sector firms. Energetic Bear has been active in 23 countries and has created 25 versions of one to its preferred Remote Access Trojans (RATs), Havex. Beyond energy firms, targets have included European governments and defence sector firms, engineering firms, and European, US and Asian academics, CrowdStrike said.
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