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The biggest underestimated security threat of today? Advanced persistent teenagers
These attacks are highly effective, have caused huge data breaches and resulted in huge ransoms paid to make the hackers go away.
By using tactics that rely on credible email lures and convincing phone calls posing as a company’s help desk, these hackers can trick unsuspecting employees into giving up their corporate passwords or network access. By demonstrating hacking capabilities once limited to only a few nation states, the threat from bored teenagers has prompted many companies to reckon with the realization that they don’t know if the employees on their networks are really who they say they are, and not actually a stealthy hacker. Heather Gantt-Evans, the chief information security officer at fintech card issuing giant Marqeta, who spoke alongside Gruber at TechCrunch Disrupt, told the audience that the motivations of these emerging threat groups of teenagers and young adults are “incredibly unpredictable,” but that their tactics and techniques weren’t particularly advanced, like sending phishing emails and tricking employees at phone companies into transferring someone’s phone number.
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