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Attacker motivations

Attacker motivations

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Attacker motivations

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- [Instructor] Let's spend some time talking about some of the goals that attackers have when they break into systems, networks, and applications. First, attackers might be attempting to perform data exfiltration. In this case, they're targeting sensitive information within the system that can be of high value. This might include intellectual property, customer, or employee data, or financial records. Attackers may also be conducting espionage. In this scenario, they covertly monitor and extract information from the target system for a sustained period of time. Their objective might be to gain strategic, political, or economic advantages. Corporate competitors, or state actors, might employ this tactic to gather insights about future products, internal strategies, or to destabilize operations. Service disruption is another common goal of attackers. They may launch denial of service attacks or deploy ransomware to cripple a system, causing significant downtime. These attacks are…

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