Cybersecurity: Groups That Are Hunting You

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Cybersecurity threats can come from a variety of individuals and groups. Here's a guide to the main ones.

Cybercriminals come in as many different forms as other Internet users. While the World Wide Web allows companies to sell and exchange information on a global scale, it has given fraudsters the ability to steal from their victims anywhere and create criminal networks that were previously impossible to exist.

The World Wide Web has become the key to the smooth functioning of the economies of the most developed countries. The nature of cybercrime has also changed. While 15 years ago, most digital crimes were essentially online vandalism, today's vast majority of online crimes are for profit. "The focus has now shifted almost entirely to profit in one form or another," says David Emm, chief security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.

This comes at a significant cost to companies malaysia mobile database consumers. The 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study, conducted by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, found that in 2015, the average cost of a data breach among the 383 companies surveyed rose from $3.79 million to $4 million; the average cost per lost or stolen record containing sensitive or confidential information increased from $154 to $158. All of the organizations surveyed experienced data breaches of between 3,000 and 101,500 compromised records. Most of the breaches were caused by attacks using malicious code. (As with many types of crime, the cost of cleanup can far exceed the hacker’s gain.)

Identity theft isn’t the only way businesses lose money from online criminals. CEO email scams, in which fraudsters pose as company executives and convince financial managers to transfer large sums of money to fictitious bank accounts, have affected tens of thousands of companies and cost them more than $3.1 billion since January 2015, according to the FBI.