FBI: Cyber-scams cost victims $6.9b-plus worldwide in 2021

Cyber-scams cost victims around the globe at least $6.9 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Report. Since 2017, the bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received an average of 552,000 complaints per year. This includes reports of extortion, identity theft, phishing, fraud, and a slew of …

[Pascal Monett]

Remote Desktop Protocol

Top of the list of things I disable when dealing with a new machine.

I understand its use in a business environment, but installing that on Joe User machines is a crime in itself.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Remote Desktop Protocol

The only sensible way to estimate the stability of a Windows server is to power it down and try it out as a step ladder. -- Robert Crawford, in the Monastery

[EnviableOne]

tbf 90% of infections are Phishing, its about 5% RDP and 3% Zero-days.

Why go to all the effort of actually cracking something, when if you ask someone the right way, they'll give you the keys to the kingdom

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Clausewitz4.0]

Re: You are a winner....

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[Anonymous Coward]

6.9bn

"Amazon to spend $12b on five more datacenters in Oregon"

So about half of what 1 company spends.on data centers in 1 state? 6.9bn doesn't seem like a problem.

[doublelayer]

Re: 6.9bn

There was an "at least" in there. The real number is probably higher. Some cybercrime won't have been accounted by the FBI, which mostly starts caring when a U.S. entity is involved as scammer or scammee. Some won't have been reported to any law enforcement. Some won't have been counted as cybercrime and counts as a different kind of fraud.

But even if it's the right number, that's a big number. Individuals can face losses in the thousands and companies in the millions. That's enough to cause lots of problems. If we decided that Amazon could pay for all the losses due to crime, we'd be fine, but since we can't, individuals have to deal with the cost. Consider how a $10k (or local equivalent) loss would affect you. If you have savings for that now, consider how it would have affected you when you didn't. It's a problem for those people.

[tomgid]

Unimpressed with the figure tbh considering the sheer size of the digital economy today.