We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of threat actor in English
Catalan
actor amenaçador Role in cybersecurity, person or entity that exploits vulnerabilities, impacting the safety or security of another entity.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "attacker"
Examples for "attacker"
1
Police said the attacker made threats with language used by far-right supporters.
2
Mr Molins said investigators were still working to identify the second attacker.
3
Mr Kurtulmus said Turkish authorities were still working to identify the attacker.
4
Police believe there was only one lone attacker, the Associated Press reports.
5
Manager Mickey Harte revealed today that the attacker needs knee surgery soon.
1
But has the new Christian Slater hacker drama taken things too far?
2
Last year, WIRED met a casino hacker making millions off slot machines.
3
To create a malicious botnet, a hacker must first compromise several computers.
4
At some point, a hacker found some major flaws in my code.
5
The popularity of martial arts in the hacker culture deserves special mention.
1
Dip in egg, then in cracker dust, and fry in deep fat.
2
Explain the change that has taken place in the cracker by mastication.
3
Dip in egg and roll in cracker crumbs, and fry as usual.
4
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
5
Make into balls, roll in cracker dust and fry in boiling lard.
1
On Wednesday Facebook said outage did not appear to be the result of a denial-of-service attack by a malicious actor.
2
In 2019, two weeks before Tampa's mayoral elections, the twitter account of the Mayor of Tampa, Bob Buckhorn, was compromised by a malicious actor.
3
As more devices get connected, malicious actors get an advantage.
4
Facebook closed the accounts and reported malicious actors tied to Russia to US law enforcement.
5
That was being used by " malicious actors" to scrape public profile information, it said.
1
As one might imagine, different threat groups launder money in different ways.
Usage of threat actor in English
1
FireEye says the seller is a known Chinese threat actor that has been active since at least 2013.
2
Cozy Bear was first identified as being a significant " threat actor" in 2014, according to the American cyber-security firm Crowdstrike.
3
What is important is that governments are not the only threat actors out there.
4
Threat actors could use this information by executing transactions just under $2,000.
5
Nowadays they are the most predominant threat actors we see threatening institutions all over this country and western Europe, he said.
6
Additionally, the FBI assumes threat actors exploit this vulnerability to integrate illicit proceeds into the licit global financial system, it said.
7
The HTF doctrine isolates the movement of illicit funds through detection strategies based on threat typologies, organizations, and actual threat actors.
8
Alperovitch said both groups were among "the best threat actors that we've ever encountered" but they did not appear to be working together.
9
Homeland Security "has confidence that this campaign is still ongoing and threat actors are actively pursuing their objectives over a long-term campaign," the report said.