Security News

The economic impact of cybercrime? Almost $600 billion
2018-02-23 13:18

Cybercrime costs businesses close to $600 billion, or 0.8 percent of global GDP, which is up from a 2014 study that put global losses at about $445 billion, according to a report by McAfee, in...

Global Cybercrime Costs $600 Billion Annually: Study
2018-02-21 18:38

The annual cost of cybercrime has hit $600 billion worldwide, fueled by growing sophistication of hackers and proliferation of criminal marketplaces and cryptocurrencies, researchers said...

Cybercrime shifts: Rise of Russian cybercrime, attacks on cryptocurrency marketplaces
2018-02-12 13:30

Cryptocurrency marketplaces, designed to facilitate trading on the full range of digital currencies, are experiencing a range of fraudulent activity. The world of cryptocurrency has moved from...

The Price of Cybercrime: 9 Years in One Case, 6 Months in Another
2018-02-02 10:56

Travon Williams, 33, was sentenced by the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to 9 years in jail for his role in a credit card fraud and identity theft scheme. read more

Cybercrime as a Service: Tools + Knowledge = Profit
2018-02-01 13:48

Supply and demand are meant to have an inverse relationship. But on darknet marketplaces, there's both an abundant supply of cybercrime products and services as well as lots of demand, says...

Insights from 700M thwarted cyberattacks show how the fight against cybercrime has intensified
2018-01-17 13:30

2017 was a record-setting year in the fight against cybercrime. Based on analysis of real world cybercrime attacks, ThreatMetrix confirmed a 100 percent increase in volume of attacks over the last...

UK Spy Chiefs Peel Back Secrecy -- to Fight Cybercrime
2017-12-14 19:10

Britain's cyber-spooks are reaching out from behind their veil of secrecy with the aim of cultivating the nation's next generation of high-tech sentries -- a move not without security risks. read more

Cybercrime is Not Seasonal
2017-12-04 15:01

Security and Intelligence Professionals Are Concentrating on Far More Than Just Seasonal Threats read more

Financial Sector Under Increasing Cybercrime Threat
2017-11-09 14:48

Europol Chief Sounds Warnings Over Ransomware, Russian-Speaking ConglomeratesThe financial sector is under increasing threat from cybercrime syndicates, and the distributed nature of today's...