How Do You Run A Cybercrime Gang?
Cybercrime has many forms, the most common of which is theft and fraud. Aspiring cybercriminals may begin with off-the-shelf malware or phishing kits and run amateur, but profitable, campaigns. Banking Trojans were the next step up, which intercept and manipulate connections during online banking procedures for exploitation and wire fraud. Several infamous groups that graduated from these campaigns went on to form organised crime syndicates and launch 'big game hunting' ransomware campaigns. Ransomware in particular, has caused mass disruption on a national level and huge financial losses. This blog will explore three top-tier cybercrime syndicates which are tracked by the private cybersecurity industry as EvilCorp, WizardSpider, and FIN7. These threat actors are financially motivated cybercriminals whose campaigns have become a scourge to organisations and society at large. So much so, that they are closely tracked by intelligence agencies and international law enforcement. Fi...