I think it's tiered. At the bottom, you find the Gift Card scammers. The next step up might be the password-guessers and phishers. Then comes the automatic server finders and ssh dictionary attackers. Etc. Somewhere near the top would be the cryptohackers who can execute man in the middle, network/audio/network/current sniffing, etc. But I think it takes a more sophisticated strategist to take that huge toolkit and customize "solutions".
And those "solutions engineers" require, I think, a fairly sophisticated and persistent infrastructure, implying a mid-sized corporation, data center, nation-state, etc. Although the loosely coupled guerrilla style organization presented in, say, Mr. Robot, sounds plausible, I think their capabilities would be constrained to the lower half of that tier. On 12/17/20 10:44 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > Are we talking (cyber)Soldiers of Fortune here? Eric Prince and and > his ilk surely have a whole string of guys much better at > first-person-shooters and cyberhacking than actual first-person > shooting. I have never opened a "Soldier of Fortune" magazine, and > even cringe when I see them, but imagine by now there is plenty of > lure/candy for the guys (and gals) all over the world in their parent's > basements (or small cardboard box behind the large cardboard box in the > shanty town) lace into those rags (well, probably not literally, because > who in that world actually touches paper?) >> I mean the "bad guys". A good reason to find out who did it is so that they >> can be offered jobs on the this side. Perhaps part of the high status is >> living an utterly lawless lifestyle -- something that would be hard to match >> in Europe or the United States. Spending power of $90k in VA would be easy >> to match I think. People that are really good at that would make much >> more, I think. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
