In this video, you will learn to describe who the primary actors are in cybercrime and their motives. So let's take a quick look into the type of the actors and there motive in order to perform cyber crime or hacking into technology systems. There is a lot of actors, but we could summarize four of them. First of all, we have the hackers. Those hackers could be paid or not. For example, a private organizations could pay a group of hackers to hack a company and extract their database to obtain intellectual property for example. Actually, that has happened in the past. There is something called the 'operation aurora' that I will recommend some for your reading regarding data operation. Then we have internal users. These could be something that is performed intentional or not. I mean, if you are working in your company and you try or you forward a set of confidential documents into your personal email, just for go to your home and start working on the night on those documents, that's something that is not necessarily intentional or is not an attack from an intentional perspective but it's an attack. I mean you shouldn't use confidential documents outside your secure company network. You are not aware of that and that's probably because you don't have the training. You don't have administrative controls, the policy or the procedure that will let you know that you shouldn't have done that. But that's the difference between the internal user with intentional motive or not. For example, if you go to your company and you intentionally go and plug a USB drive into your computer and execute a biters that something intentional. The thing is, sometimes its a little bit difficult to understand if the internal user have the motive or not to perform those malicious actions. Then we have hacktivism. Hactivism is something similar to the hackers, but the thing with hacktivism is normally nobody pays to those hacktivism to perform attacks. For example, DDoS campaigns are performed to a lot of states, a lot of nations in order to make pressure for one particular decision. For example, we're going to explore a couple of Singapore hacks, that a group of hackactivists performed on the government websites because their Singapore government are implementing new compliance and new regulations into their internet. So that's a quick example of the hacktivism. Governments. We talk before about governments, their intentions. Mostly their intentions are not financial but they have intentions, they normally wants to spy. They normally wants to understand what is happening in each country from the inside from the confidential data that they are managing. So that's another actor. What are there motive? Here's just a quick example of the motives or some motivations that the attackers may have. One motivation is just play. Demonstrate that they have the capacity. They have the capabilities for hack into a secure system. They sometimes try to gain money. They try to make some money on there scams or on their hacks, that something that could be categorized or could be aligned with there criminal organizations. Political actions and movements. If a group of people wants to perform an attack into a government, in most of the occasion that attack came because they have a motivation, they have a political motivation, they have a movement to make it clear to the government that they are here, they want something. They are not agree with some policy or something like that. So there is a political motivation over there. One interesting motivation is hire me. Is I will demonstrate to you that I could hack you, I could enter into your security system, I could or find holes into your security system, in order for you to understand that I am a good hacker, a good technician or a good guy with technical skills that could be hired into your organization, into your government to fix or to patch those security holes.