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Criminals have numerous reasons for launching various forms of cyberattacks:

 Stealing money directly: Attacking to gain access to someone’s online banking account and issue a wire transfer of money to themselves.

 Stealing credit card numbers, software, video, music files, and other goods: Attacking to purchase goods or add bogus shipping instructions into a corporate system leading to products being shipped without payment ever being received by the shipper, and so on.

 Stealing corporate and individual data: Attacking to obtain information that criminals can monetize in multiple ways (see the section “It’s All About the Money: How Cybercriminals Monetize Their Actions,” later in this chapter).

Over the years, the type of criminals who commit online crimes has evolved from being strictly solo actors to a mix of amateurs and organized crime.