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Cyber Risks · Unit 42 Palo Alto Networks

Adversaries and Their Motivations (Part 3)

Summary: Unit 42's third installment in its Adversaries and Their Motivations series covers three top-level actor motivations: Cyber Warfare, Cyber Terrorism, and Cyber Mischief. The post notes that attribution across these categories is fuzzier than for espionage, crime, and hacktivism, that Cyber Warfare operations are well funded and backed by government, military, and intelligence resources and often run alongside Cyber Espionage, and that Cyber Terrorism is distinguished by threatened or realized loss of life, severe economic damage, or disruption of core infrastructure.

Bottom line: Cyber Mischief, which Unit 42 says accounts for most of the threat noise on the Internet, is also cover: savvy actors from other motivations can tailor activity to blend into that noise or use it to distract defenders, so the volume your team wades through is partly someone else's camouflage.

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