Cybersecurity officer at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, or ENISA, describes findings from the agency’s Threat Landscape 2021 report. State-sponsored actors, cybercrime actors, hacker-for-hire actors and hacktivists are four different types of threat actors. Lella says that the attack methods of the four different threat actor types have not necessarily shifted, but their “motivation has slightly changed and differentiates the four categories” Lella joined ENISA in 2016 as a cybersecurity officer and has led the threat Landscape initiative since 2021.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/what-motivates-cyber-threat-actor-a-18091