It’s super cheap to launch an effective cyber-espionage scheme
Putting together a thorough cyber-espionage campaign in order to spy on hundreds of people can be surprisingly inexpensive, new research by Citizen Lab explains and private sector cybersecurity experts agree. Over the course of nearly two years, Citizen Lab estimated that a hacking group possibly linked to the Chinese government had spent $1,068 in order to stand up computer systems that were used to target people primarily linked to Tibet; an autonomous territory bordering Nepal and Bhutan that is loosely controlled by the Chinese government. This activity illustrates to some degree how in certain environments, largely because of poor digital security practices, an attacker can run an effective yet rudimentary scheme to collect intelligence from multiple organizations all at once. Experts say that while Citizen Lab’s findings are not unique, it paints a picture of how cheap and scalable hacking techniques — including email phishing and web exploit kits — are part […]
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