However, the crypto industry is growing stronger than ever and despite the old stigma that bitcoin is only
used by cyber criminals and for money laundering, the industry is still booming in the country.
He warns against this so - called «intrusion technology» that is often marketing the techniques
used by cyber criminals.
Here are the most popular online scams and techniques
used by cyber criminals to gain.
However, the crypto industry is growing stronger than ever and despite the old stigma that bitcoin is only
used by cyber criminals and for money laundering, the industry is still booming in the country.
Not exact matches
They are typically
used by nation states for espionage and sabotage, not
by cyber criminals who tend to
use widely known bugs for their attacks.
The ransomware strain, known as WannaCry (or WanaCrypt0r and WCry and WCrypt), was deployed
by unknown
cyber criminals who
used an exploit allegedly written
by the NSA.
The agency added that «we assume the majority of cryptojacking is carried out
by cyber criminals, but website owners have also targeted visitors to their website and
used the processing power of visitors» CPUs, without their knowledge or consent, to mine cryptocurrency for their own financial gain.»
admin Cryptinfo Litecoin has been tipped as the next dominant dark web cryptocurrency
used among
cyber criminals, according to research
by Recorded Future.
iovation exposes
cyber criminals by identifying the computers they are
using to steal from or harm online businesses.
In the same month, 48 US law firms were specifically targeted
by Russian
cyber criminals looking for M&A activity to
use for insider trading.
For a
cyber criminal, this kind of information can be sold on the dark web or
used by the
criminal themselves.