FBI: in 2018, cybercriminals “earned” $ 2.7 billion

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FBI: in 2018, cybercriminals “earned” $ 2.7 billion.

FBI Fraud Complaint Center (IC3) experts published this week by the FBI report dedicated to online crime. According to law enforcement statistics, in 2018, 351,926 complaints were received (which is 14.3% more than in 2017), and the total losses of the victims are estimated at 2.7 billion.

On average, specialists received more than 900 complaints every day, and the most common problems last year were: compromise through business correspondence (BEC), personal data leakage, phishing in all its diversity, fraud through "romantic" dating, scams with non-payment and non-delivery of goods, as well as extortion.

It should be noted that, in general, the number of attacks by cryptographers has decreased to the level of 2014, but the company's losses due to such extortion have increased significantly, because criminals are now carefully selecting victims and trying to inflict as much damage as possible in order to get a solid ransom.

IC3 experts call BEC attacks the most serious problem: over the past year, victims have lost 1.3 billion dollars because of them.

Typically, a BEC attack involves compromising the legitimate email account of one of the company's employees. After this, the attackers use the account to send fake letters to employees of the same company or its partners, and convince them to transfer funds to false accounts, hiding behind fake invoices and fictitious transactions.

However, BEC attacks can also be carried out without compromising someone’s mailbox. The same term also refers to fraudulent schemes in which criminals use ordinary social engineering and the simplest tricks. Thus, in correspondence, fraudsters impersonate representatives of a partner company, forcing the employees of the victim company to pay a fake invoice or “accidentally” transfer funds to a fraudulent account by cunning and deception.

To get an idea of how fast the number of BEC attacks is growing and how effective they are, you can look at the statistics in the table below. Last year, company losses for the first time exceeded one billion dollars, and IC3 analysts believe that in 2019 it will only get worse.

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[Aleksandra Loshak]

Among the options for leakage of personal data is completely legal. Today there are enough sites on the web with genealogical information. Recall that in many banks, until now, one of the options for checking the account is the question of the mother's maiden name. Draw your own conclusions.
I think it’s time for banks to change approaches in this matter))))

 

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Among the options for leakage of personal data is completely legal. Today there are enough sites on the web with genealogical information. Recall that in many banks, until now, one of the options for checking the account is the question of the mother's maiden name. Draw your own conclusions.
I think it’s time for banks to change approaches in this matter))))

So it’s true, but whoever said that I’ll tell the truth and tell them my mother’s maiden name, this information is not verified and is taken into account as is, so I wouldn’t 100% trust this data, a person can indicate any name that never will not forget everything (can be considered live hack). Yes, there are strange people who tell everything about themselves, even when it is not necessary. But not all of them.

 

[Aleksandra Loshak]

Thank! A very interesting thought, at least for me. I think that the average person in the bank does not come up with anything to at least not forget what he said.