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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.
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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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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First machines take jobs from workers and now they take crime from criminals. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?! ;)
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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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