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- Let's go over what are threat actors?

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Right. So threat actors, bad actors

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or malicious actors,
you know, all these are

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different names that
basically mean the same thing.

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Other folks actually call them attackers

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but the industry is actually standardizing

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in the word or the, you
know, name, threat actor.

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So the threat actors are individuals

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or a group of individuals
that perform an attacks

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or responsible for a acute scene incident

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that impacts or actually has the potential

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of impacting an organization
or an individual, right?

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So there are several
types of threat actors

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and here are actually including,

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you know, a few examples.

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First one is actually script kiddies,

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And these are people who
uses assistance scripts

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you know, thus, the words, script kitties,

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or, you know

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different tools to actually
hack into computers

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and to networks.

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And actually, you know

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they actually lack the expertise, right.

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To write their own software,
their own exploits.

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So basically actually use somebody else's

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and you see these very often for either,

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you know, kids, you know

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nowadays actually launching
the denial service attacks

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you know, and using
specific tools or, you know

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individuals that are somewhat

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quote unquote amateurs, right.

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That, that, that they
actually want to perform,

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you know either malicious or, you know

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an illicit activity using
somebody else's script

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right?

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Now we also have organized crime groups.

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Right. And the main purpose

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of these groups is actually
to steal information,

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scam people, and make money, right?

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And there are many
different organized crime

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groups that are, you
know cyber threat actors

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that make a lot of money nowadays.

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And this is actually an
unfortunate reality that the cyber

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you know, economy, what
we call the cyber economy

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you know, scamming people,
stealing information.

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This means, you know,
credit card information

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medical records, social security numbers

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identity of people, and
many others, you know

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this is actually a huge business nowadays.

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Even with the now very popular, you know

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set of exploits at
malware called ransomware.

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right?

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So these organized crimes
actually making a lot of money

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and there's also state
sponsor and governments,

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right.

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And these are interested
in of course stealing data

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including intellectual property

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and research and developing
data from many major government

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agencies, manufacturers,
and defense contractors.

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Right.

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And we also have hactivists

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which are the people that actually carry

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out cybersecurity attacks, aimed

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at promoting a social or political cause.

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Right.

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So basically these are
protesting against something

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right.

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For political or, you
know, social motives.

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Right. And then we have
the terrorist groups

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and they're motivated by political

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and or religious beliefs as well.