If you ask some of the field’s top cybersecurity executives what their biggest concerns are, you might not expect bored teenagers to come up. However, in recent years, this totally new generation of money-motivated hackers has carried out some of the biggest hacks in history and shows no signs of slowing.
Meet the “advanced persistent teenagers,” as stated by the security community. These are skilled, financially motivated attackers, such as Lapsus$ and Scattered Spider, who have proven capable of digitally breaching into hotel companies, casinos, and tech behemoths.
The hackers can deceive unsuspecting employees into giving over their company passwords or network access by using strategies such as believable email lures and convincing phone calls posing as a company’s support desk.
These attacks are extremely effective, have resulted in massive data breaches impacting millions of individuals, and have resulted in large ransoms paid to make the hackers vanish. By displaying hacking capabilities previously limited to only a few nation states, the threat from idle teenagers has forced num
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