Initial Access Brokers - What They Are and How They Are Selling Access from Under You

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What is an initial access broker?

When people think of cyber criminals, they often conjure up an image of a lone individual sitting in front of a laptop in their mother’s dark-lit basement—but the reality of modern cybercrime is very different. It is big business, and just as with any industry, legal or not, we have seen the business evolve from the early days of lone threat actors carrying out end-to-end attacks to specialist threat actors offering particular stages of an attack as cybercrime-as-a-service.