{"id":17062,"date":"2024-09-17T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T08:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-teams-global.de\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T20:48:21","slug":"cyber-security-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it-teams-global.de\/en\/2024\/09\/17\/cyber-security-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Crime - what is that exactly?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cyber security protects systems, networks and programs from digital attacks. These cyber attacks are often aimed at unauthorized access to sensitive data and the alteration or destruction of sensitive information. Cyber attacks are aimed at extorting money from users through ransomware or disrupting normal business processes.<\/p>\n

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Cyber Crime - what is that exactly?<\/h2>\n

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What is cybercrime? Just like ordinary crime, it also exists on the Internet. Some examples of cybercrime include identity theft, online predators, BEC (\u201cBusiness Email Compromise\u201d), ransomware, and the theft of sensitive intellectual property.<\/p>\n

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Why the increase in crime?<\/h3>\n

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Cybercrime increases regularly every year. Some reasons for this are that cybercrime is easy to commit and the risk of being caught is low. There is often a high return for little work, and attackers can target thousands of victims. Money laundering is easier, and challenges such as identity theft can have significant consequences. This can lead not only to financial loss, but also to much personal heartache.<\/p>\n

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The internet offers many services to facilitate money laundering, usually making it a trivial process. As money is exchanged in cryptocurrency*, services such as tumblers make it hard to track the money.<\/p>\n

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Tumblers <\/strong>are services which split up cryptocurrency transactions and forward the money through many accounts, with different values, for thousands of people, making them hard to track.<\/p>\n

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What do cybercriminals do and who are they?<\/h3>\n

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Who are cyber criminals? It can be anyone, but some common ones we see in the media all the time. like state-sponsored groups targeting organizations in other countries, Hacking Groups out to target companies to make them pay ransom, or even kids in their rooms doing illegal hacking.<\/p>\n

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How can cyber criminals be caught and exposed?<\/h3>\n

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Cyber criminals can remain anonymous using trivial means, and it is generally easy to avoid being caught. When attackers are caught, it is often because of mistakes they made themselves, for example through complacency. There is also significant potential for law enforcement to use apprehended cybercriminals to exclude other actors in the trade.<\/p>\n

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However, law enforcement faces many challenges when pursuing cybercrime. You might see attack traffic coming from a system in the UK. If you take that system offline, you may find it was being controlled remotely from, for example, a computer in India. If you cooperate cross-border with law enforcement you might be able to reach the system in India, only to discover it was again being controlled remotely, for example from a system in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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Money Making Threats<\/h2>\n

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Cyber criminals are driven by money<\/h3>\n

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There are a few key threats organizations face frequently:<\/p>\n

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