Cybercrime gangs like the notorious Lazarus group and spyware vendors like Israel’s NSO should be considered cyber mercenaries – and become the subject of a concerted international response – according to a Monday report from Delhi-based think tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF). Author Fitri Bintang Timur argued the term mercenary applies because, as amendments to the Geneva Convention put it, mercenaries are “an entity having the motivation to gain financial or material compensation in return for their willingness to fight for the recruiter’s country.”

Source: The Register