Cyberthreat actors are people or organizations that operate with the malevolent goal of exploiting weaknesses to obtain unauthorized access to computer networks. They want to have an impact on the victim’s devices, networks, systems, or data. They can effectively exploit weaknesses by spreading them to worse places with the help of the internet. The second installment of the webinar series titled “Cybersecurity: Past, Present, and Future” is this article. Financially motivated social engineering attacks, such as the one discussed in the first installment of this series, are classified as “organized crime,” accounting for a higher percentage of attacks than other attack categories such as activist, cashier, system administrator, state-affiliated, etc.
