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their approach, these activities can still deal
widespread damage.
“Cybercrime is a lucrative industry and
it’s not surprising it’s become the arm of
powerful, organised groups,” says Don
Smith, Senior Director, Cyber Intelligence
Cell, Secureworks Counter Threat Unit. “To
understand the complete picture of the
cybercriminal world, we developed insights
based on a combination of Dark Web
monitoring and client brand surveillance
with automated technical tracking of
cybercriminal toolsets.”
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Key findings
Among the CTU researchers’ key findings
were the following: was likely responsible for a Gandcrab
ransomware campaign against the South
Korean population and infrastructure, as part
of a broader pattern of attacks.
The boundary between nation-state
and cybercriminal actors continues
to blur GandCrab is developed and sold ‘as-a-
service’ and is more commonly associated
with financially motivated criminal actors.
Nation-state actors are increasingly
using tools and techniques employed by
cybercriminals and vice versa. In August
2018, CTU researchers determined the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea In March 2018, a threat actor likely
associated with the Iranian government
used access that had previously been
leveraged for espionage to deploy
a cryptocurrency miner across the
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