$ 4 billion the cost of web attacks in 2020

US businesses and citizens have lost more than $4 billion to cybercrimes και απάτες στο Δια during the of 2020, according to a new FBI report.

Based on data collected through the FBI's Cybercrime Complaint Center (IC3), where citizens can report financial losses from cybercrime and cybercrime, the report states that 20% more money was lost than in the previous year. Victims also reported more than 2.000 incidents per day on average, up from 1.200 in 2019.

In total, BEC incidents were reported more than 19.000 times and resulted in approximately $1,8 billion in losses. The comparison with the of 2019 (23.775 complaints with losses of $1,7 billion) shows that criminals had a smaller network, but were more successful at defrauding victims of larger sums.

Unlike BEC attacks, ransomware attacks have become much more destructive. In 2020, the FBI received a total of 2.747 ransomware complaints, amounting to a loss of $ 29,1 million, up from just $ 8,9 million the previous year. And the total losses are likely to be much greater, because not all events are reported to the authorities.

However, it is not just companies that have suffered cyber damage. U.S. citizens also paid $ 146 million in tech support fraud, with losses rising 171 percent year on year.

Most of the victims (66%) were in their 60s or older, the FBI said, adding that scams were usually a joint effort between call centers abroad and US-based suspects.

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Written by Anastasis Vasileiadis

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