Explanation & Hint:
- State-sponsored attackers: These are individuals or groups that gather intelligence or commit sabotage on specific goals on behalf of their government. This type of attacker is typically well-funded and highly skilled, with the backing of a nation-state.
- Hacktivists: These attackers make political statements in order to create an awareness of issues that are important to them. Hacktivism is the act of hacking, or breaking into a computer system, for a politically or socially motivated purpose.
- Vulnerability brokers: While not directly mentioned in the exercise, these are entities that discover exploits and report them to vendors, or alternatively, sell the information in underground markets. They are essentially middlemen in the trade of vulnerabilities.
- Script kiddies: This term is often used to describe inexperienced cyberattackers who use existing computer scripts or code to hack into computers, lacking the expertise to write their own.
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