There are any number of bad actors behind cyber attacks these days. From enterprising criminals to nation-states to hacktivists to malicious insiders, there are multiple possibilities of who is behind it when a system is compromised and data is breached.
Compromised organizations sometimes rush to point fingers at who is responsible for attacks and threats because it is gratifying.
“Researchers and vendors sometimes rush to attribution,” said Mat Gangwer, Senior Director of Managed Threat Response at Sophos. “It can often be because they want to be the first to make claims that it was a specific group or nation state. And some organizations may do it as a way to reveal the sophistication of the attack they are facing.”
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