Sentences with phrase «for cyber criminals»

As cryptocurrency prices continue to rise, crypto exchanges will become an even bigger target for cyber criminals.

The stealing of financial information is nothing new, with stolen credit or debit card data on the black market a well - established and lucrative business for cyber criminals.

Well, speaking of the IRS, it has been working to make it more difficult for cyber criminals to file fraudulent tax returns but the criminals have upped their game.

Law firms are appealing and sought - after targets for cyber criminals for three reasons.

Infected attachments, spam and phishing attacks delivered by email make it easy for cyber criminals to deliver malware and breach law firm security protections.

While these companies are getting more efficient, digitization has opened up new doors for cyber criminals to exploit.

«Cyber threats are everywhere and financial institutions are at the top of the list for cyber criminals to penetrate and do damages,» Ghorbani said.

A meteoric crypto currency market triggered a gold rush for cyber criminals.

Cryptocurrency and ICOs are also fertile grounds for cyber criminals and hackers.

The legal sector has become such an obvious and easy target for cyber criminals in part due to the amount of files — from PDFs to Word documents and Excel spreadsheets to saved email trails — which can be sent without appropriate anti-malware programmes and other cyber security resilience tactics in place.

«Other cryptocurrencies, such as Monero, have far surpassed Bitcoin in terms of privacy and anonymity of transactions, which is an important consideration for cyber criminals exploiting devices for cryptocurrency mining operations,» said Goody.

Understanding attractiveness of financial sphere for cyber criminals we help our partners and their users to ensure reliable data protection,

As the country moves towards integrating mobile in the economy, there has been a surge in usage of mobile wallets, online transactions and app downloads, making the smartphones even more vulnerable and a playing field for cyber criminals.

Funds raised via ICO have become more attractive for cyber criminals wishing to capitalize on the booming cryptocurrency market.

Ransomware attacks were up 50 percent in the first half of 2017 and the profitable economics of the business model mean it will likely remain a favorite choice for cyber criminals.

There are a plethora of known ransomware «families» (the diversity of code being evidence that this is a lucrative business for cyber criminals) representing many more variants than the early days of Cryptolocker, which is kind of like the Kleenex of the ransomware world, a generic name now used indiscriminately.

Also read: Lisk Community Continues Developing Ecosystem Tools, Services International Crackdown on Ransomware The initiative, called «No More Ransom,» has a simple goal: make it more difficult for cyber criminals to capitalize on ransomware by outsmarting them.

Law firms are actually very appealing and sought - after targets for cyber criminals for three reasons.

Law firms and their clients continue to make national headlines for all the wrong reasons, as both sides are now a prime target for cyber criminals.

Tax fraud is big business for cyber criminals.

Android's popularity and open platform approach has made it a natural target for cyber criminals.

With so much money at stake within financial systems, its little wonder that financial services firms of all types are a huge target for cyber criminals.

And small and medium sized businesses are really top targets for cyber criminals and talking with industry experts as well as our customers themselves, this is something they continue to struggle with, how to defend and how to react to it.

Law firms continue to be lucrative targets for cyber criminals.

For a cyber criminal, this kind of information can be sold on the dark web or used by the criminal themselves.

However, opening your systems to remote access creates a number of security risks as external network connections are a ripe target for cyber criminals.

Real estate transactions are prime targets for cyber criminals.