Security News > 2022 > July > The business of hackers-for-hire threat actors

In the world of illegal cyber activities, different kinds of threat actors exist.

Another category of threat actors exists, dubbed hackers-for-hire.

Google's Threat Analysis Group published a new report about this kind of threat and how it works, providing examples of this ecosystem from India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.

Some hackers-for-hire structures also work with third parties, generally private investigation services, which act as proxy between the customer and the threat actor.

As often in the Russian cyber criminal underground, the threat actor also highlighted positive reviews of its services from different well-known cyber criminal marketplaces such as Probiv.

Most of these threat actors actually use email phishing as a starting point and generally do not go further than email box compromise and data exfiltration, which means they do not necessarily need any malware but rather use social engineering tricks.

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