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Trends in Security Information
The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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(Cyber)crime as a service
Whilst a part of crime is conducted as an end of its own, such as robbery or drug dealing, other crimes are committed by criminals as a paid service for others. Classic examples are contract killing, money laundering and smuggling. Just as there are service providers in the legal market, service providers are present in the criminal world. A recent development is the appearance of cybercrime service providers. In these cases, a Blackhat hacker is hired to provide a service for a third party. In the past, third parties have been corporations, terror groups, criminals, nation states, security agencies or private citizens.
Common forms of cybercrime as a service include renting out botnets, committing distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), selling stolen credit card details, malware, spam- and phishing attacks. Supply and demand of criminal services find each other on hacker forums, direct web sales and on the dark web. Often, cryptocurrency is utilized to provide the supplier of the crime with the necessary funds.
Related keywords: hitmen, enforcers, data breach, assassination, CaaS
Whilst a part of crime is conducted as an end of its own, such as robbery or drug dealing, other crimes are committed by criminals as a paid service for others. Classic examples are contract killing, money laundering and smuggling. Just as there are service providers in the legal market, service providers are present in the criminal world. A recent development is the appearance of cybercrime service providers. In these cases, a Blackhat hacker is hired to provide a service for a third party. In the past, third parties have been corporations, terror groups, criminals, nation states, security agencies or private citizens.
Common forms of cybercrime as a service include renting out botnets, committing distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), selling stolen credit card details, malware, spam- and phishing attacks. Supply and demand of criminal services find each other on hacker forums, direct web sales and on the dark web. Often, cryptocurrency is utilized to provide the supplier of the crime with the necessary funds.
Related keywords: hitmen, enforcers, data breach, assassination, CaaS