Global cybercrime dominated by 50 groups

Cybercrime in 2013 was dominated by a core of around 50 active groups, including Russian and Chinese ‘threat actors’ whose activities are only now coming to light, a report from monitoring firm CrowdStrike has found.

Using an approach that foregrounds the ‘threat actors’ above the malware itself, the firm divides groups according to whether they are deemed to be motivated primarily by national, political and purely commercial motives,