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The Indian <strong>Police</strong> JournalSl.No.Pr<strong>of</strong>essionalpositions categoryFunctions <strong>and</strong> area <strong>of</strong>operation7. Cashiers Individuals, who control drop accounts <strong>and</strong>provide names <strong>and</strong> accounts to other criminals forfree.8. Money Mules Persons who complete wire transfers betweenbank accounts.9. Tellers Persons, who are charged with transferring <strong>and</strong>laundering illicitly-gained proceeds through digitalcurrency services10. OrganizationleadersMotivationPersons without any technical skill, who <strong>of</strong>tenassemble the team <strong>and</strong> choose the targets. Leaders,quite <strong>of</strong>ten, initiate the indiscriminate attacks. Theymay either operate individually or with others incoordination. For this purpose, they contractpr<strong>of</strong>essional programmers <strong>and</strong> hackers, who takethe task <strong>of</strong> creating, propagating the maliciouscompetitive intelligence <strong>and</strong> like through phishing,bots, web defacement, fake web pages, etc.Motivation is the key component in underst<strong>and</strong>ing the hackers. Itmotivation helps to answer several questions, such as:• hacker?• Is the system <strong>of</strong> interest is valuable or enticing?• Answering these questions will provide for a better risk assessment<strong>and</strong> risk mitigation strategies. Motivation generally falls into followingcategories:‣ ChallengeBreaking into computer systems or Network, was a challenge <strong>and</strong>still it is one <strong>of</strong> the most common motivation. Another aspect <strong>of</strong>network.January - March, 201393
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