Profile for Crackers
Finance: $1000-$100,000 in equipment/facilities
Time and Effort: Lots of time - some full-time or more
Group Size: 1-100 - usually small cells or individuals with some group activities
Other resources: Stolen and ‘borrowed’ items of all sorts, sometimes vehicles, almost always ‘owned’ systems from past exploits. Often hundreds of ‘owned’ systems.
Loose associations - sometimes as many as 100 people are indirectly related through various associations - tend to leverage victim resources - tend to hide behind other victims.