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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by dboreham on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:36AM (#39251695)
Threat actor is the new term for hacker.
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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by wslh on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:56AM (#39251931)
A hacker is an individual or a hacker group. When a state is involved we can think more about the typical work of intelligence agencies and/or cyberwar.
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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by steve_rambo on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:47AM (#39251824)
Why not, maybe we can get the original meaning of the term hacker back at some point.
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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by rvnx on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:45AM (#39251796)
and "nation-state" is the new "sophisticated sql injection"
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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by progbits on Sunday February 04, 2024 @11:47AM (#39251819)
It's always state sponsored:

https://youtu.be/UawS3_iuHoA?t=378

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Re:Cloudflare Hacked by Suspected State-Sponsored Threat Actor by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday February 04, 2024 @01:49PM (#39253108)
Threat actor is a more generic term that covers all kinds of attackers.

For example, it could be an insider who exploits existing privileges (no hacking involved). Or it could refer to a nation state or organised crime (not an individual).

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