By Kelly Jackson Higgins

Even if you learn the name and get a photo of the Chinese hacker sitting behind the keyboard and siphoning your valuable intellectual property, it's unlikely to lead to his arrest. But there are ways to use that information to put the squeeze on the attacker and his sponsors.

After years of focusing mainly on the malware used in data breaches and financially motivated hacks, some security experts have begun to turn the spotlight on the attacker himself, attempting to profile the bad actors stealing your blueprints, your customer credit card numbers, or leaking your usernames and passwords on Pastebin. Leading that charge is CrowdStrike, the startup that aims to aggressively profile, target and, ultimately, help unmask sophisticated cyberattackers.

Trend Micro also has been drilling down on the characteristics of different types of attackers, recently profiling the East Asian cyberespionage attacker versus the Eastern European cybercrime attacker. This shift toward getting to know the enemy behind the malware is a new way to put up better defenses from these inevitable attacks.

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Source: Dark Reading