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Threat Actors

Learn about the individuals and groups behind cyberattacks, including nation-state hackers, cybercriminal organizations, hacktivists, and insider threats. These articles analyze motivations, tactics, and real-world examples to help you understand who poses risks to your digital assets.

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What Is Cybersecurity

What Is Cybersecurity? A Practitioner's Real-World Guide

The Question Everyone Asks After the Breach In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered its way past the help desk with a single phone call. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They called IT, pretended to

Carl B. Johnson Feb 22, 2019 7 min read
Cybersecurity Definition

Cybersecurity Definition: What It Really Means in 2026

The Breach That Rewrote the Cybersecurity Definition for Everyone In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a

Carl B. Johnson Feb 14, 2019 6 min read