Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. BEC has a home In the pantheon of ishings.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

As Dirk Schrader, global vice president at New Net Technologies, the researcher behind these PACS reports, has stressed, many health systems often bring PACS servers online without ensuring they’re not directly connected to the internet or accessible without authentication.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, the World Economic Forum (WEF) projects that by 2021: Global cybercrime costs could total approximately $6 trillion in the US. If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest economy in the world. Clearly, cybercrime is big business, and it operates like one. How big is the impact of cybercrime?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Hackers may also access webcams to perform other types of cybercrime, such as identity theft, fraud, or extortion.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. The FBI received a record number of reports last year totaling 791,790, a 69% growth from 2019. billion in 2019 to $4.2 billion in 2020.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It soon emerged the intruders had gained access to Equifax’s systems by attacking a software vulnerability in an Internet-facing server that had been left unpatched for four months after security experts warned that the flaw was being broadly exploited. in 2019 , according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Hackers may also access webcams to perform other types of cybercrime, such as identity theft, fraud, or extortion.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Identity Theft. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Fileless malware attacks increased by 265% during the first half of 2019. The problems with the RDP is that it suffers from vulnerabilities that can be exploited and the RDP service may rely on internet-facing servers which are easily accessed.".

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

In September 2019, ProPublica revealed millions of medical images were being exposed online through unsecured Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS). The DICOM standard is more than 30 years old and easily exploitable when left exposed to the internet. A neurologist studies a patient’s computed tomography scan. (US

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” billion people were active internet users as of October 2020. “Phone scammers were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019.”

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

The long-running Breadcrumbs series here tracks how cybercriminals get caught, and it’s mostly through odd connections between their online and offline selves scattered across the Internet. As I described in a 2019 story about an interview Fly gave to a Russian publication upon his release from a U.S.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

Cybercrime nearly always increases during times of crisis as criminals take advantage of panic and unease. The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly no exception, but victims of cybercrime often don’t know where to turn for help. Kristin Judge, founder of the Cybercrime Support Network, hopes to change that. billion in victim losses.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do.

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