Security News > 2021 > December > Surveillance-for-hire: Are you a target of the booming spy business?
Any individual or any company can become their target, as long as someone pays to spy on them.
Engagement: This part consists of engaging contact with the target or people close to it in an effort to build enough trust to entice the target to download/execute files or click on infecting links.
The goal is to compromise the targets device(s) and start enabling surveillance.
These targets may be business executives, journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, religious or politics figures, NGO employees, academics, government officials and even family members of some targets.
The attackers could target sensitive employees, like directors or high executives, but also target any employee just to gain access to the corporate network.
The attackers might get permanent backdoor access to the targets' emails, phone messages and calls, or even monitor all of their targets' daily actions.