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Cyber Security Money Making Threats

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Driven by Money

There are a few key threats organizations face frequently:

There are plenty of ways of making money for cyber criminals, which attracts people and interest.


Value and Power

There is value and power in many things related to IT, for example:

The potential for criminals to make significant amounts of money within the cyber domain causes more and more criminal gangs and other opportunists to join in on the action and make our lives much harder.


Threatening for Money

Another common attack cyber criminals perform to make money is the act of extortion, that is holding individuals hostage based on information they have on a individual, trying to make them pay money to be released from the extortion attempt. Consider the following common scenario:

Scam Artist

Stories like these are far from uncommon, and there exists countless of different scenarios and opportunities for criminals to benefit from victims using the Internet without knowing the risks associated.


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