Let us explore the fundamentals of cyber security in this video, we will discuss about the types of
actors who play a major role in various types of attacks in the cyber world.
First is darker before discussing darker, we will discuss the definition of hacking, hacking refers
to activities that seek to compromise digital devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and
even entire networks.
And with hacking might not always be for malicious purposes.
Nowadays, most references to hacking and hackers characterize them as unlawful activity by cyber criminals
motivated by financial gain, protest, information gathering, spying and even just for fun of the
challenge.
Hackers are the artists, computer addicts, challenge seekers, creators, and sometimes for good destroyer's.
All the online transactions, bill payments and all that stuff are possible because of them.
The media has mixed up the word hackers with cracker's.
Crackers are the ones who do that nuisance, they basically have lack of knowledge in the field and
to present themselves as Hekker to avoid the crack in the computer systems.
Hackers are the smartest guys in the field of computers.
They have more knowledge and information than those who develop a software or system.
Hackers are the visionaries who could see new ways to use computers, creating programs that no one
else could conceive.
They were the pioneers of computer industry, building everything from small applications to operating
systems, like if something is made by a human brain, it can also be hacked by human brain.
Hacking is typically technical in nature, like creating malware, tracing their deposits, malware
in a drive by attack, requiring no user interaction.
But hackers can also use psychological trick users into clicking onto malicious attachment and providing
personal data.
These tactics are referred to as social engineering.
Therefore, time is the key.
Next is the cyber terrorist and cyber terrorism.
Cyber terrorism is the use of Internet based attacks and terrorist activities, including acts of deliberate,
large scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet
by the means of tools such as computer viruses, cyber terrorism itself, a controversial term, some
other issues, a very narrow definition relating to deployments by the known terrorist organizations
regarding disruption of attacks against information systems for the primary purpose of creating alarm
and panic.
By this narrow definition, it is difficult to identify any instance instances of cyberterrorism.
The term was first coined in 1994.
It differs from traditional tourism because of its ability to gain leverage from person, group or government
of computer information in order to cause physical damage or harm or to blackmail or target.
Nevertheless, just as traditional terrorism, cyber terrorism causes a net loss of property and terror
in people's mind, cyber terrorism also involves worldwide economic chaos and environmental damage back
in critical systems.
Cyber terrorism is the convergence of cyberspace and terrorism.
It refers to unlawful acts or threats against computers, networks and information stored within the.
Areas of cyber terrorism are like fishing, what rolling ransomware scanning next is the hacktivism,
it is derived from combining the words hack and activism.
Hacktivism is the act of hacking or breaking into computer system for politically or socially motivated
purposes.
The individual who performs an act of activism is said to be activist.
Logically, I can say that hacktivism may be described as the falling of uncultured members of the society
who are want to make the environment unclean and who are capable for feeling the fear in the heart of
innocent humanity, common targets for activists in government agencies, multinational corporations
or any other entity perceived as bad or wrong.
But hacktivist group or individual, of course, gaining unauthorized access to any organization's assets
to such activities is a criminal act, no matter what the intention might be.
Activism is part when individuals or groups perception of what they consider to be wrong are unjust
and hence incentivizes them to do something about it.
Motivations include revenge, political or social incentives, ideology, protest, a desire to embarrass
certain organizations or individuals within those organizations, or sometimes sheer vandalism.
In general, hacker groups aim to question, provoke and challenge governments, organizations and companies
who go against their moral position next to the state sponsor attacks.
There is a global chess match between nation states and businesses and various digital organizations.
The result is a state sponsored cyber attacks, which have emerged as one of the prominent threats targeting
companies today.
Backed by the government and funded with the biggest bank rules, state sponsored groups can apply seemingly
limitless resources to achieve their objectives in an age when cybersecurity communities are strapped
by tight budgets and a cybersecurity talent shortage out of 94 cases of cyber attacks reported as financial
crimes since 2007.
The attackers, when 23 of them were believed to be a state sponsor, the majority coming from countries
like Iran, Russia, China and North Korea.
State sponsored actors often have particular objectives aligned with either the political, commercial
or military interests of the country.
Very well, possible state sponsored actors will use standard acting methodology used by other typical
cyber crime actors and penetration testers.
State sponsored actors will really make a lot of noise and cause sufficient disruption to warrant suspicion
or trigger detection.
Their objectives are to remain persistent, to retain oversight of communications or access to sensitive
data.
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Script kiddies are probably the lowest level of hackers, these hackers.
Next hour, the script kiddies script kids are probably the lowest level of hackers, these hackers
don't create or developed hacking tools by themselves.
They didn't really copy tools and methods from books or the Internet.
As far as I know, names clip critique comes from the idea of younger people who don't know how to grow
the program are just keeping the scripts that other people have already made and tried to hack with
them.
For example, imagine a child gets their first computer.
The child watches a movie about hacking and then downloads a copy of Linux to begin playing with the
various programs while searching for online tutorials.
The most serious threat a script possesses is through the use of social engineering techniques.
A script kiddie lacks the knowledge to create software or exploit vulnerabilities.
To compensate, they often turn to social engineering in order to manipulate the victims into granting
access or sharing information.
Ethical hacking is not the same thing as a scripted script.
Kiddies are essentially just people who think they can hack and only a very small amount of information.
Let us have a quick recap of what we learned in this lecture.
We studied five types of actors hackers, cyber terrorists, terrorism, state sponsored actors and
script kiddies.
In the next lecture, we will explore two types of attacks is to attack, attack, to attack.