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Trend AI's Robert McArdle on Criminal Business Models Surviving Tech Revolutions
After 18 years tracking cybercriminal operations at Trend AI, Robert McArdle, Director of Cybercrime Research, has developed a framework for predicting how threat actors adopt new technology: the answer consistently comes down to economics, not capability. He breaks down three rules of thumb his team uses: criminals want an easy life, any new technology must beat the ROI of their current model, and cybercrime is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Those rules explain why ransomware has actually slowed the adoption of new attack methods and why the lowering technical barrier for attackers…
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