
Weird & Wacky Researcher Summer: The Artifacts & Detections Edition
DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches
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The Threat Actors That You Track for Absurdity
The big one is TA427 who instead of infecting people with malware they just ask them for the information and offer to pay them for it like hey we'll give you $300 to write an opinion piece or a peer-reviewed journal piece. They pose as various North Korea related journalists or think tanks and stuff which is probably gonna end up being a better return on their investment than paying some windows dev to write some malware for them. That's a really great point and harkins back Krista to our conversation with Dr. Peter Bergen about what he sees in terms of threat actors that are becoming more sophisticated.
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