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Intelligence around cybercrime has evolved as the cybercriminal ecosystem has specialized, including malware developers, botnet operators, and professional cybercrime groups. A few leading cybersecurity companies have the skills and resources to follow these individuals and groups, providing a variety of defensive information like file hashes and malicious IP/URLs. Some of this threat intelligence is freely published, but ongoing access typically requires a subscription. At the individual level, intelligence focuses on an actor's tactics, techniques and procedures. Hacking has become less complex as knowledge has diffused through hacking communities online, with beginners benefiting from advice. Cloud computing now makes hacking cheaper than ever by providing scalable email services and resources for attacks.

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Crimes

Intelligence around cybercrime has evolved as the cybercriminal ecosystem has specialized, including malware developers, botnet operators, and professional cybercrime groups. A few leading cybersecurity companies have the skills and resources to follow these individuals and groups, providing a variety of defensive information like file hashes and malicious IP/URLs. Some of this threat intelligence is freely published, but ongoing access typically requires a subscription. At the individual level, intelligence focuses on an actor's tactics, techniques and procedures. Hacking has become less complex as knowledge has diffused through hacking communities online, with beginners benefiting from advice. Cloud computing now makes hacking cheaper than ever by providing scalable email services and resources for attacks.

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Intelligence[edit]

As cybercrime has proliferated, a professional ecosystem has evolved to support


individuals and groups seeking to profit from cybercriminal activities. The ecosystem
has become quite specialized, including malware developers, botnet operators,
professional cybercrime groups, groups specializing in the sale of stolen content, and so
forth. A few of the leading cybersecurity companies have the skills, resources and
visibility to follow the activities of these individuals and group. [76] A wide variety of
information is available from these sources which can be used for defensive purposes,
including technical indicators such as hashes of infected files [77] or malicious IPs/URLs,
[77]
 as well as strategic information profiling the goals, techniques and campaigns of the
profiled groups. Some of it is freely published, but consistent, on-going access typically
requires subscribing to an adversary intelligence subscription service. At the level of an
individual threat actor, threat intelligence is often referred to that actor's "TTP", or
"tactics, techniques, and procedures," as the infrastructure, tools, and other technical
indicators are often trivial for attackers to change. Corporate sectors are considering
crucial role of artificial intelligence cybersecurity.[78][79]
Diffusion of cybercrime[edit]
The broad diffusion of cybercriminal activities is an issue in computer crimes detection
and prosecution.
Hacking has become less complex as hacking communities have greatly diffused their
knowledge through the Internet. Blogs and communities have hugely contributed to
information sharing: beginners could benefit from older hackers' knowledge and advice.
Furthermore, hacking is cheaper than ever: before the cloud computing era, in order to
spam or scam one needed a dedicated server, skills in server management, network
configuration, and maintenance, knowledge of Internet service provider standards, etc.
By comparison, a mail software-as-a-service is a scalable, inexpensive, bulk, and
transactional e-mail-sending service for marketing purposes and could be easily set up
for spam.[80] Cloud computing could be helpful for a cybercriminal as a way to leverage
his or her attack, in terms of brute-forcing a password, improving the reach of a  botnet,
or facilitating a spamming campaign.[81]

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