The Deadly Planeswalker: How The TrickBot Group United High-Tech Crimeware & APT
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Research by: Vitali Kremez, Joshua Platt and Jason Reaves
The Wind of Time Shakes the Underground | High-Tech Cybercrime & APT | Most Sophisticated & Resourceful Crimeware Group
When we talk about cybercrime, we often portray a hidden, hazardous realm, which is radically different from the one that we live in. In fact, hackers and their cybercrime enterprises exist in the same world as ours and undergo the same social and economic transformations as those which shape our reality.
When cybercrime emerged, it followed the rules of the late industrial age. Despite their Fin de siècle fleur of harbingers of the radically novel era, cybercriminal communities relied on standard, if not mundane operational rules of classic enterprises — separation of functions, division of labor, focused specialization. In other words, underground malware engineers who developed information stealers most likely never had a chance or intent to talk to hackers who developed ransomware; hacktivists did …
The Wind of Time Shakes the Underground | High-Tech Cybercrime & APT | Most Sophisticated & Resourceful Crimeware Group
When we talk about cybercrime, we often portray a hidden, hazardous realm, which is radically different from the one that we live in. In fact, hackers and their cybercrime enterprises exist in the same world as ours and undergo the same social and economic transformations as those which shape our reality.
When cybercrime emerged, it followed the rules of the late industrial age. Despite their Fin de siècle fleur of harbingers of the radically novel era, cybercriminal communities relied on standard, if not mundane operational rules of classic enterprises — separation of functions, division of labor, focused specialization. In other words, underground malware engineers who developed information stealers most likely never had a chance or intent to talk to hackers who developed ransomware; hacktivists did …