In that case, the managers aren't "victims" and aren't "attacked", that would be the company..
> By the time the ransom note lands, the crooks may already know who approves invoices, who signs contracts, who runs HR, and who reports to whom. The encryption is just the bit that victims notice.
And commercially-available data: enterprise salespeople, for example, can buy this intel from data brokers (directly, or with layered services catering to sales funnels specifically).
It's another way that surveillance capitalism can be a national security threat against the US. You have countless US companies collectively mapping out people networks and assembling often intimate dossiers on individuals... and saving international organized crime and geopolitical adversaries a ton of work, which they might not have the resources to otherwise do.
Also F ZScaler - we use this officially sanctioned MTM attack at work and all it does is make my job harder.
> Xennials, also called Xillenials, are a social cohort encompassing people born on the cusp of or during the later years of Generation X and the early years of the Millennials generation.
> Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.
Rare and intersectionally have an unfair advantage.
Pretty bang on description actually. As a 46 yo, sometimes I can't believe I have actual memories of using a rotary phone, or when my family first got a microwave or even VHS recorder. Yet I do. Feels like eons ago.
Duodecades:
* 1968-1980
* 1980-1992
* 1992-2004
* 2004-2016
* 2016-2028
* GenX: 1968-1992
* Millennial: 1980-2004
* GenZ: 1992-2016Currently, I am at 20 BMI, for reference.