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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

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State Attackers Moving from Stealing Data to Social Meddling

The new cyber intelligence report expects that the monetary benefits will allure the use of crypto-mining malware and cryptocurrencies by cyber attackers this year.

The cyber state attacker force is growing at an alarming rate.

Few unexpected nation states are rising in the ranks of sponsored attackers, including spying on thousands of people across 20 countries via an Android malware campaign, and another one infiltrated Russia’s Cozy Bear liar and uncovered the hack of DNC during the 2016 elections.

State-sponsored attacks are expanding from cyber-physical (compromise data or critical infrastructure) to cyber-social (influence the opinions and actions of people).

Russian cyber-social attackers have set the template for nation states and hack activists.

The utilities and energy industries experienced high indicators of attack activity, which suggests that attackers have access to critical infrastructure and are waiting to exploit this access.

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