Hacker-for-hire groups that sell their services to private entities are popping up on the radar of security companies. Security firms Kaspersky Lab and Bitdefender independently released reports about two such mercenary groups. One was seen targeting law firms and companies in the financial sector, while the other targets architectural and video production companies. “Weve recently seen a trend in which the tactics and techniques used in the past by state-sponsored APT groups have now been used in attacks on smaller companies,” a researcher says.”]