FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks

Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI's latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report.  The Feds recorded 880,418 complaints in 2023, which represents almost a 10 percent increase in reports of crime versus a year earlier. The potential monetary loss, …

[Anonymous Coward]

Curious

The feds are very good at adding up the losses and reporting the numbers, it's a pity they're simply incapable of doing anything about it.

[ecofeco]

Re: Curious

They can't spend what they don't have.

Not to mention the big rise in homemade U.S. domestic terrorism. They seem a little busy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Curious

> Not to mention the big rise in homemade U.S. domestic terrorism. They seem a little busy.

Do you mean all those MAGA Christian stochastic terrorists /s

[Kev99]

Oh, let's put our business critical, proprietary, confidential, and private data out on the bunch of holes held together with string / vapor. It's free, so it won't cost us a dime. Plus, the savings from this secure & free marvel we can throw into our back pockets and Wall's Streets.