{"id":2279,"date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/hackers-sell-out-and-go-corporate-as-cyber-crime-becomes-shift-work\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:59","slug":"hackers-sell-out-and-go-corporate-as-cyber-crime-becomes-shift-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/hackers-sell-out-and-go-corporate-as-cyber-crime-becomes-shift-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers sell out and go corporate as cyber crime becomes shift work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online hackers are leaving surprising clues for cyber sleuths based on the time of their attacks \u2014 a trail suggesting the computer criminals are punching a clock for shift work. Chinese hackers, for instance, are on a Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule, Beijing time, indicating they are likely paid employees based in that time zone. For instance, activities of the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group linked to the regime in Damascus, start with a bang on Sunday, the beginning of the work week in Syria. The al-Qasam Cyber Fighters, a group believed to be sponsored by Iran, shows the most activity Monday-Wednesday, when banking business in the West is at its peak, but is also active Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online hackers are leaving surprising clues for cyber sleuths based on the time of their attacks \u2014 a trail suggesting the computer criminals are punching a clock for shift work. Chinese hackers, for instance, are on a Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule, Beijing time, indicating they are likely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4766,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}