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EFF on the UN Cybercrime Treaty

Schneier on Security

EFF has a good explainer on the problems with the new UN Cybercrime Treaty, currently being negotiated in Vienna. Cybercrime Treaty is necessary, we’ve been closely scrutinizing the process and providing constructive analysis.

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What is the Cybercrime Atlas? How it can help disrupt cybercrime

CSO Magazine

Announced in June 2022, the Cybercrime Atlas is an initiative from the World Economic Forum (WEF) to map activities of cybercriminals and create a database that can be used by law enforcement across the world to disrupt the cyber-criminal ecosystem.

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of day-to-day activity needed to support these enterprises is in fact mind-numbingly boring and tedious, and that highlighting this reality may be a far more effective way combat cybercrime and steer offenders toward a better path.

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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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Cybercrime group FIN7 targets Veeam backup servers

CSO Magazine

Researchers warn that a financially motivated cybercrime group known as FIN7 is compromising Veeam Backup & Replication servers and deploying malware on them.

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8 Popular Types Of Cybercrimes In The 21st Century

SecureBlitz

Looking for a list of the popular types of cybercrimes? In this digital age, Cybercrime is any crime committed using the computer or any connected digital devices. Cybercrime started in the 1970s with the hacking of computerized phones to make long distance calls without paying.

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FBI: Investment Scams Surpass BEC as Most Costly Cybercrime

SecureWorld News

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2022 Internet Crime Report , which reveals the trends and impacts of cybercrime in the United States. The report shows that phishing schemes were the most common type of cybercrime reported by victims in 2022, with 300,497 complaints.