“ BY HAVING ACCESS TO SUCH INTELLIGENCE , INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN PUT THEMSELVES ON THE FRONT FOOT AGAINST ATTACKERS ”
DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS
“ BY HAVING ACCESS TO SUCH INTELLIGENCE , INSURANCE COMPANIES CAN PUT THEMSELVES ON THE FRONT FOOT AGAINST ATTACKERS ”
PAUL PRUDHOMME HEAD OF THREAT INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY AT INTSIGHTS , A RAPID7 COMPANY
select persons of interest . Overseas HUMINT operations , with intelligence officers deployed in foreign countries in search of human sources to develop and recruit , often entail queries for more information on persons of interest that they encounter , or as a source of leads for them to pursue for development or recruitment . Other use cases for compromised PII in foreign intelligence services include the vetting of visa applicants , airline passengers , and other travelers for counterterrorism , counternarcotics , or other national security purposes . Identifiers such as dates of birth , Social Security numbers , and identity document numbers often facilitate these queries by enabling analysts to distinguish multiple individuals with the same or similar names , which can be harder if those names are in a foreign language .
Hacktivists targeting
5 insurance companies Ideologically motivated hacktivists can also disclose target insurance companies in support of their political or economic goals . The report found that hacktivists often target the financial institutions and government agencies of a given country in the belief that such attacks undermine its political and socio-economic power structure .
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