10 Shocking Facts About Cyber Criminals
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 10/24/2015 10:25 AM
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1.The most wanted cyber criminals in the world:
On FBI’s Most Wanted List for cyber criminals you will currently find 19 individuals, each being responsible for consumer losses ranging from $350,000 to more than $100 million. They come from all over the world.
MyDoom is considered to be the most expensive virus in the world and in cyber security history, having caused an estimated financial damage of $38.5 billion!
3. Social media – a hackers’ favorite target:
Because social media users usually trust their circles of online friends. The result: more than 600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised every single day!
4. 99% of computers are vulnerable to exploit kits:
Cyber security fact: Oracle Java, Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash is present on 99% of computers. That means that 99% of computer users are vulnerable to exploit kits (software vulnerabilities).
5. Security warning: inside jobs:
59% of employees steal proprietary corporate data when they quit or are fired.
6. Social engineering – cyber criminals’ favorite way to manipulate victims:
For example, in a recent attack, an international cyber crime ring based out of Eastern Europe managed to steal $1 billion in 2 years from 100 different banks in nearly 30 countries using spear phishing emails targeting bank employees. The spear phishing technique is, by far, the most successful on the internet today, accounting for 91% of attacks!
7. Your government is making you more vulnerable:
Cyber security fact: governments around the world are creating malware and using it as digital weapons or in espionage programs.
8. There is a real-time map that shows cyber attacks in action:
Ever wondered how cyber attacks look at a global scale? Now you have the chance to do it with this real-time map put together by Norse.
9. Hacktivism is the main motivation that drives cyber attacks:
Hacktivism accounts for half of the cyber attacks launched in the world.
10. 68% of funds lost as a result of a cyber attack were declared unrecoverable:
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect cyber attacks and resolve security issues create by them.
Feeling safer?
Source: Heimdalsecurity
On FBI’s Most Wanted List for cyber criminals you will currently find 19 individuals, each being responsible for consumer losses ranging from $350,000 to more than $100 million. They come from all over the world.
MyDoom is considered to be the most expensive virus in the world and in cyber security history, having caused an estimated financial damage of $38.5 billion!
3. Social media – a hackers’ favorite target:
Because social media users usually trust their circles of online friends. The result: more than 600,000 Facebook accounts are compromised every single day!
4. 99% of computers are vulnerable to exploit kits:
Cyber security fact: Oracle Java, Adobe Reader or Adobe Flash is present on 99% of computers. That means that 99% of computer users are vulnerable to exploit kits (software vulnerabilities).
5. Security warning: inside jobs:
59% of employees steal proprietary corporate data when they quit or are fired.
6. Social engineering – cyber criminals’ favorite way to manipulate victims:
For example, in a recent attack, an international cyber crime ring based out of Eastern Europe managed to steal $1 billion in 2 years from 100 different banks in nearly 30 countries using spear phishing emails targeting bank employees. The spear phishing technique is, by far, the most successful on the internet today, accounting for 91% of attacks!
7. Your government is making you more vulnerable:
Cyber security fact: governments around the world are creating malware and using it as digital weapons or in espionage programs.
8. There is a real-time map that shows cyber attacks in action:
Ever wondered how cyber attacks look at a global scale? Now you have the chance to do it with this real-time map put together by Norse.
9. Hacktivism is the main motivation that drives cyber attacks:
Hacktivism accounts for half of the cyber attacks launched in the world.
10. 68% of funds lost as a result of a cyber attack were declared unrecoverable:
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to detect cyber attacks and resolve security issues create by them.
Feeling safer?
Source: Heimdalsecurity
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