[ngcc_hk]

Why not just say hacker ? Know we are on hacker news and hence it is semantically not exactly right. But threat actor … sound more like threaten actor. Just a movie star or drama queen. If one say Heroku was hacked or just sales force … I know one want to manage but somehow the title is not exact right. Too pr.

[tempfs]

Threat actor is industry standard terminology for a malevolent or blackhat brand of hacker.

Not all hackers are threat actors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker