We show you the most common cyber crimes among American Internet users, according to a FBI report and Statista.
With the passage of time and the evolution of technologies, the digital age is increasingly present in people around the world, who do use of electronic devices and other alternatives to implement them within their daily lives for work, educational and recreational purposes among other options to consider, either through the use of smartphones, tablets, computers and even cars.
To take into account how high the percentage of digital consumers is today, a graph from Statista shows that, according to estimates from Newzoo estimates, during 2021 there were approximately 3.9 billion smartphone users in the world; Likewise, Gartner forecasts predicted that more than 1.5 billion smartphones will have been sold globally.
Taking into account the high rate of people who have endless technological devices, more and more companies are also present in these, taking advantage of the time of digital permanence and trust between users to offer digital consumers different alternatives for buying and selling products or services (where ecommerce has managed to play an important role), requesting some data such as bank cards, personal data, permissions to transfer their data to these companies, among other contributions.
Bearing this in mind, cyber crimes have become increasingly commoncausing millions of people to be exposed to the theft of their personal data, bank accounts, extortion, data leakage, deception, among other consequences that are the product of cybercrimecausing the brands in charge of offering these technological items and digital services to have to further strengthen their efforts in terms of cybersecurity and software, since a bad move could cost them dearly in terms of both money and image, fact that remained considerably present during the pandemic.
According to information from the World Economic Forum (WEF), during the decrease in social mobility and the increase in digital permanence due to Covid-19, cyberattacks recorded a 151 percent increase on small and medium-sized businessesbecause these were the ones that had the fewest resources dedicated to digital security.
These types of cybercrime acts have caused various companies to bet on making powerful efforts and alliances to avoid being one more victim of this type of harmful situation for both their brands and their consumers.
An example of this is found with companies like Microsoft, who secured the purchase of RiskIQ, a fact that would allow their clients to deal with cyberattacks, as well as distance themselves from other types of risks of this nature; Likewise, there are organizations that have sought to offer a way to increase cybersecurity in e-commerce platforms, as Botech demonstrated by working on a certification that would allow brands to raise their security levels in these digital shopping and sales spaces.
The digital environment is constantly growing, as well as cybercrime ratesHow much longer will this problem remain?
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