Insider Threat An insider threat comes from a person who has, or once had, legitimate access to an organization's systems, data or premises. That can be an employee, a former employee, an administrator, an associate, a supplier or a partner. The trouble is that the access was not necessarily unauthorized to begin with.

Wiper A wiper does not exist to steal or to extort — a wiper destroys data. It erases and overwrites, breaks file systems, and combined with worms and zero-day vulnerabilities it can bring down hundreds or thousands of networks within hours. Unlike ransomware it offers no ransom; recovery was never part of the plan, because the aim is damage, not money.

SCADA/OT Attack … amage to equipment, pressure on the operators, or sabotage. OT security is therefore measured not by whether the data stays confidential but by whether the proc …

Worm … ent. Carried in on a USB stick, it sought out and sabotaged very specific control systems.