12 Feb 90+ Cyber Crime Statistics 2024: Cost, Industries & Trends
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
– Read today’s full story in Astra Security
Sausalito, Calif. – Feb. 2, 2024
Astra Security, a global penetration testing company with offices in New Delhi, India, and Clayton, Del., features facts, figures, predictions, and statistics from Cybersecurity Ventures in a blog post that has their own eye-catching infographics.
Some of our numbers highlighted by the ethical hackers:
Cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by 2025;
Cryptocrime will inflict global damages costing $30 billion annually by 2025;
Ransomware will cost its victims around $265 billion annually by 2031;
There are 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2024, up from a Cisco estimate of 1 million openings a decade ago.
Aside from the Cybersecurity Ventures data, the researchers at Astra Security rounded up a summary of costs around DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, phishing, BEC (business email compromise) schemes, social media scams, and much more.
These pentesters say that cybercrime can be targeted at any individual or organization of any size that has assets in cyberspace, and their blog drives home the point.
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