The document defines and describes several types of cyber threat actors: hacktivists who conduct cyber protests; cyber terrorists who use networks to spread propaganda and plan attacks; organized hackers who target networks for financial gain through theft of personally identifiable or financial data; script kiddies who have little skill and rely on pre-existing tools; insider threats who are current or former employees with malicious intent; and state-sponsored hackers directed by governments to access other nations' classified information.

1. Hacktivist
Threat Actors
Cyber Terrorist
Organized Hacker
Script Kiddies
Insider Threat
State Sponsored Hacker
T y p e s o f
Threat actors who promote specific social or political causes. In form of protest -
they break into government or world-wide known corporate computer systems,
deface or disable their websites.
Motivated by their religious or political belief, cyber terrorists tend to spread
propaganda, plan terrorist acts, and perform other actions all through the
computer network
They attack computer systems to gain profit. They usually target confidential data
like Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of employees or customers, or financial
information.
Inspired by real hackers, Script Kiddies are beginners hackers with no programming
knowledge, therefore use ready-to-use scripts, tools, or software developed by
others, to perform their attacks.
Insider actors are individuals from within the
company, who either have malicious motives to
cause a bad reputation to the company or intent to
gain financial benefits. They can also be
undertrained employees, third-party, or employees
who no longer work for the company.
These threat actors are sponsored by a state to gain
unauthorized access to classified, top-secret
information of another state.
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