Eighty percent of cybercrime is committed by organized crime
groups, according to a new study from the John Grieve Centre for
Policing and Security at the London Metropolitan University and
BAE Systems Detica, Techworld reports.
The study, Organized Crime in the Digital Age, found that most of the organized groups that commit cybercrime are staffed young to middle-aged "technical types," and that the crime rings tend to have up to a dozen people.
According to the article:
As far as what types of groups are most susceptible to these attacks, V3 reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers recently warned that financial services firms are most at risk to hacker attacks.
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The study, Organized Crime in the Digital Age, found that most of the organized groups that commit cybercrime are staffed young to middle-aged "technical types," and that the crime rings tend to have up to a dozen people.
According to the article:
The earliest online crimes included pump-and-dump
stock scams in the late 1990s, but the real jump came with the
development of the mainstream Internet around the turn of the century.
Organised crime quickly picked up on the potential for information
theft and fraud, which was eventually industrialised with the arrival
of botnets around 2006.
“Organised criminal activity has now moved from
being an emerging aspect of cybercrime to become a central feature of
the digital crime landscape,” said Kenny McKenzie, head of law
enforcement for BAE Systems Detica, which commissioned the study. “Our
report shows that more and more criminal activities now rely upon the
online world.”
The study refers to this as a "fourth era" of organized crime.
Researchers analyzed 7,000 documentary sources for their conclusions.As far as what types of groups are most susceptible to these attacks, V3 reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers recently warned that financial services firms are most at risk to hacker attacks.
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