“Threats can include ‘subtle pressure, patriotic enlistment, bribery, compromise and blackmail, legal repercussions, threat to livelihood, threat to viability of life in the actor’s area of influence, threat of force, or elimination,’depending on the attacker, cybersecurity expert Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade wrote in a paper presented this fall at the Virus Bulletin Conference in Prague.”

Source: Cybersecurity Researchers Are Hunted from All Sides | Motherboard