Quotes About Cybercrime

As our digitally connected world continues to expand, the inherent vulnerabilities in the systems we rely on provide ever greater opportunities for those who want to exploit them.

financial transactions from hackers and thieves.

Wannacry is the Stuxnet of Ransomware

We have all been hacked, the only question is whether you know it or you don't'.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

If you're a cyber-criminal, the days of stealing data and then selling it for cash in the dark web - they're not so profitable as they used to be.

Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.

All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.

You have a very large population of hackers in Eastern Europe in general and Russia especially. A lot of them consider themselves patriotic individuals and will take broad direction from government policies.

One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

You hacked the FBI?" I said incredulously. "And Interpol," Sloane replied brightly. "And you'll never guess what I found.

In 2018, about two billion people, or two-thirds of the online population, had their personal information stolen or compromised.

In 2018 cyber theft cost an estimated $600 billion globally. That's about as much as the global illicit drug trade.65 If cybercrime were a country, it would rank in the top twenty-five in terms of annual GDP.

If cybercrime were a country, it would rank in the top twenty-five in terms of annual GDP.

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

Attackers are able to amortize the cost of exploit, malware, and infrastructure development across many targets.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

Organized crime and rogue nation states and terrorists are very much focused on the Internet of things. The challenge that goes with connectivity is always security. The bad guys go wherever the return is, and now it's more lucrative for bad guys to focus on cybercrime than traditional crime.

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person's workstation. It's extremely difficult to defend against.

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.