The bad guys behind the latest cyber security attacks get up
close and personal with these hacker personalities. Learn to recognize them and
protect your cyber-data.
Hacktivist Anonymous
My Motives: Disrupting the status quo, seeking
virtual mischief and mayhem to make a point to the governments and large
corporations, freeing terrorists, vigilante-ism, boxing, cyber protest,
anarchy, fun.
My Boss: Myself and what I believe in, totally
decentralized
My comrades: 4chan, Anonymous, Lulzsec, AntiSec
My Tools: Web application attacks using freely
available tools
My Favorite Beverage: Energy Drinks
My Methods: I use freely available script kiddie’s
tools to launch DDoS attacks or web application attacks to try to hijack a
legitimate website or steal data.
My Street Cred: I was responsible for 58% of all data
theft in 2011, but in 2012 my fellow hackers foot a bigger piece of the pie
My Hero: Guy Franks, the face of Anonymous hacker
group
My Claims to Fame: Project chorology, Operation payback Arab
spring activities, operation HBGary, operation ouraborus, operation Sony
operation Megaupload, just to name a few.
CYBER CRIMINAL
My Motives: Identity theft, credit card information,
extortion (via ransoware or DDos), click-jacking, pirating software, monetizing
computer data in any way possible
My Boss: My
financier, a traditional criminal organization that has decided to recruit tech
savvy kids
My comrades: Other cyber criminals in the underground
market, where we swap hacking kits
My Tools: Exploit kits sold on underground internet
(or darknet) markets and forums and tools I also buy and sell prepackaged
botnets and botnet modules
My Favorite Beverage: Vodka
My Methods: I prefer web-based drive-by downloads,
ransoware and fakeware, and can even use my victims to attack others
My Street Credit: I took $20.7 billion from consumers
last year
My Hero: Albert Gonzalez, who stole over 170 million
credit and debit card numbers in two years
My Claims to Fame: I recently completed a global bank
heist, stealing about $45 million from ATMs
NATIONS STATE CYBER SECURITY
My Motives: Obtaining intelligence form my foes,
cyber espionage, stealing secrets from my adversaries, disrupting or damaging
an enemy’s military infrastructure, propaganda, distracting an enemy during a
real attack
My Boss: My government
My comrades: I only trust a few people within my
government organization
My Tools: Customized, advanced malware and toolsets
designed for a very specific goal (i.e. Stuxnet, Flame, and Gauss)
My Favorite Beverage: A martini – shaken, not stirred
My Methods: Advanced persistent threats, zero days
exploits, rootkit technology, strong encryption, and malware customized for
non-traditional computing systems
My Street Cred: IN the Aurora attacks of 2009. I introduced
the watering hole attack and hole targeted over 30 large companies including
Google
My Hero: UglyGorilla (real name: Jack wang)
My Claims to Fame:
Google Aurora attacks, New York Times hack, and other classified
security breaches
