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Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report (krebsonsecurity.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via Krebs On Security: A new report from the nation's National Crime Agency (NCA) warns that cybercrime has now surpassed all other forms of crime in the United Kingdom. "Cyber enabled fraud" was found to make up 36 percent of all crime reported, with "computer misuse" accounting for 17 percent. The report calls for stronger law enforcement and business partnership to fight cybercrime. One explanation for the growth of cybercrime reports in the U.K. may be that the Brits are getting better at tracking it. The report notes that the U.K. Office of National Statistics only began including cybercrime for the first time last year in its annual Crime Survey for England and Wales. "The ONS estimated that there were 2.46 million cyber incidents and 2.11 million victims of cybercrime in the U.K. in 2015," the report's authors wrote. "These figures highlight the clear shortfall in established reporting, with only 16,349 cyber dependent and approximately 700,000 cyber-enabled incidents reported to Action Fraud over the same period." The increasing sophistication of organized cybercrime gangs that develop and deploy targeted, complex malicious software may also be to blame for the rise in cybercrime. Dridex and Dyre were specifically mentioned in the report, which are aimed at emptying consumer and business bank accounts in the U.K. and elsewhere.
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Cybercrime Overtakes Traditional Crime In UK, Says Report
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if you count just about every virus and bit 'o ransomware as cybercrime you'll hit those numbers in no time. I'm still more worried about getting mugged in analog. Of course, the beatings are much richer, with more fullness of sound.
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This won't happen in the US. It's not because the US is particularly good at preventing cybercrime, but because the UK doesn't have other sources of crime like Black Lives Matter. The sniper shooting cops in Dallas should be considered a terrorist attack by Black Lives Matter, but remarkably this hasn't happened. Regardless, as long as anti-police groups like Black Lives Matter continue to operate, there will continue to be large amounts of traditional crime committed by blacks. Don't expect cybercrime to overtake traditional crime in the US anytime soon.
the different types of cybercrime I found fascinating. For example in England sophisticated viruses and worms are mostly to blame, while in northern ireland its some unemployed chav named Connor beating your head in with an old Model M keyboard until you give him fifty quid and whatever you picked up at the chipper.
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read more Charles Stross "Rule 34", Halting State" and several of his other books touch on the cybercrime idea.
if the unskilled criminals are "script kiddies", then the unskilled police would be "script piggies" ?
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The report calls for stronger law enforcement and business partnership to fight cybercrime.
The control freaks who think they can restate that cleverly need to fuck off.
Spies use these stories to numb you while they track you and steal your data for their own bullshit plans. G.T.F.O. spies
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First machines take jobs from workers and now they take crime from criminals. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?! ;)
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In other news in the uk , all other crime keeps dropping so much they need to invent new laws and crimes so they can keep there copper military buds employed , wont work forever , and thus they are now getting worried they must add spy laws so as to get you on anything even if you really have no intention of it...just think of all the way crap can be TAKEN out of CONTEXT and used against you....
guess we need ot toss all the computers in jail now after all if it wasnt for all the computers there would be no cyber crime
lets start the war on P.C.'s get rid of them all now ..../sarcasm
I think there should be a campaign to preserve the skills associated with traditional, authentic crime. It tastes better, for a start, and it keeps locals employed.
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Does high frequency trading count as cybercrime? What about Windows 10?
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Most people in the UK do not bother reporting small crimes,it's a waste of time.
If you are seriously asking us to believe that there are more computer fraudsters or cases of fraud,then all the drug dealers and deals and the burglars and their victims must be a figment of peoples imagination..
I would suggest that this "report" is a total load of c..p...