Tag: women
Women break glass ceiling of Russian cybercrime
Women cybercriminals and lady Darknet hackers are now starting to make inroads into the hitherto male-dominated fraternities of Russian-speaking cybercrime. According to the cybersecurity training and certification cooperative, the SANS Institute, women cybercriminals sometimes now pose as men in order to obfuscate their identities as well as to gain credibility among Russian-speaking criminals. The SANS Institute interviewed one such woman cybercriminal, who is referred to only as a "Confidential Human Source (CHS)" in order to comply with her request for anonymity. “I often took my boyfriend to in-person meetings,” CHS revealed, shining a new light on a so-far largely unrecognized aspect of cybercrime, the fact that cybercriminals meetings are frequently also conducted offline.
Growing diversity in cyber, but still a long way to go
The percentage of ethnic minorities working in cyber in the UK has seen an upward trend over the last three years, although it appears to have plateaued at 22 percent after rising from 16 percent in 2020 to 25 percent in 2022. While the cyber workforce is slightly more diverse than that of the digital sector and UK workforce as a whole, the percentages are still lagging far behind where they should be and the US cyber workforce shows similarly lackluster percentages.