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Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Security Affairs

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020. Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow.

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Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World

Security Boulevard

As per an article by The Hindu, 50,035 cases of cybercrime were reported in 2020, 11.8% more than in 2019 while 60.2% of cybercrimes were of fraud. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs. The post Cybercrime: Rising Concern to Cyber World appeared first on Kratikal Blogs.

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KrebsOnSecurity in New Netflix Series on Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

They didn’t specify what additional topics the series would scrutinize, but Netflix’s teaser for the show suggests it concerns cybercrimes that result in deadly, real-world kinetic attacks. “Conspiracy. Murder,” reads the Netflix short description for the series.

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Microsoft works with partners on Cybercrime Atlas

CyberSecurity Insiders

The program was developed in the year 2019 and after a long pause, the service of crafting the service was resumed at the end of last year. The mapping will be called as Cybercrime Atlas and arrangements are being made to host it at the World Economic Forum(WEF) in the next 18-20 months.

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UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. law enforcement agents in connection with various cybercrime investigations. Source: Booting the Booters, 2019.

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How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?

Krebs on Security

This post explores answers to those questions, as well as some of the ways Trickbot and other organized cybercrime gangs gradually recruit, groom and trust new programmers. Alla Witte’s personal website — allawitte[.]nl nl — circa October 2018. 6 in Miami, Fla. “Several group members had AllaWitte folders with data.

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DoJ charged 19 individuals in a transnational cybercrime investigation xDedic Marketplace

Security Affairs

19 individuals worldwide were charged in a transnational cybercrime investigation of the now defunct xDedic marketplace. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime)