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Poll: Where do you think most hacks, viruses, etc originate?
  • Foreign cyber agencies
    23.2%
  • Domestic cyber agencies
    16.5%
  • Organized crime orgs
    25.2%
  • Indie hackers
    35%
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Complex answer: indie hackers were first and used to be most common, now dwarfed by organized crime. Cyber agencies will always be a minority, but they'll all be APT (instead of low-hanging fruit drive-by); full balance on foreign vs. domestic TBD.
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Advanced Persistent Threat: a targeted attack by a well-funded adversary. Used to be uncommon (most were attacks of opportunity at easy targets), getting increasingly common now.
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