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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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Bitdefender 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report – Attackers Increasingly Target the Human Layer

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But regular consumers are equally affected by cybercrime, directly or indirectly. Bitdefender this week has published its annual Consumer Threat Landscape Report for 2020 underscoring some of the most prevalent cyber threats targeting regular users today. Cybersecurity can often seem like a topic for the business sector.

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Sophisticated Attacks Against Mobile Devices Surge 187%

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Cybersecurity firm Zimperium recently released its 2023 Global Mobile Threat Report 2023 , revealing a concerning increase in sophisticated attacks targeting mobile devices. The report sheds light on the escalating threat landscape faced by mobile-powered businesses.

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The Evolving Cybersecurity Threats to Critical National Infrastructure

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For example, #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth, celebrating its 20th anniversary this October, aims to empower people and organizations across every sector to protect critical assets against cybercrime. The rising reliance on cloud platforms creates an expanded attack surface for threat actors and adversarial nation-states to exploit.

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Financial services continue to lead in cybersecurity preparedness, but chinks appear in the armor

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That is why criminals have historically chosen to focus on this industry over the years, with organized crime evolving into organized cybercrime. Download the full 2022 Thales Data Threat Report, Financial Services Edition now. Marcelo Delima | Senior Manager, Global Solutions Marketing. More About This Author >.

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Exclusive – MalwareMustDie Team analyzed the Cayosin Botnet and its criminal ecosystem

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STD attack, Tsunami, Christmas DDoS attacks were adapted from Kaiten botnet, along with more flood combination taken from Qbot / Lizkebab / Torlus / Gafgyt variants: multiple attack methods integrating multiple source code in the same artifact and provided a “As a Service” to other teens or threat actors and sold offhandedly on Instagram.

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Do You Trust Your Smart TV?

Security Affairs

According to the 2020 Insider Threat Report , contractors, service providers, and temporary workers pose the greatest risk to 50% of organizations. These attacks require physical access as someone must physically insert the rogue device, and in this case, that “someone” was an insider; more specifically, an outsourced worker.