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Most Americans have been the victim of a cybercrime, and don’t expect things to get better anytime soon.
Criminals, like most humans, are fundamentally lazy. When presented with several options for accomplishing a task, they generally will take the easiest one. For some people that’s a function of their skill set, but for others it’s simple practicality. Easier is better. And for criminals, easier also means more money.
In the last couple of decades, law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been quite successful in disrupting various terrorist and organized crime groups by going after their financing. That’s one of the key methods the U.S. government used in attacking al Qaeda after 9/11 and the FBI and DEA have employed the same strategy for years in narcotics investigations. Now we’re beginning to see the same strategy applied to anti-cybercrime operations.
There are an unknowable number of significant organized cybercrime rings operating at any given time, so when one of them falls, it’s easy to gloss over it. But in recent days, law enforcement officials on two continents took down a group that was responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in losses in the last couple of years and was operating one of the larger phishing and malware infrastructures ever seen.
The arrest of a 29-year-old man in Prague for suspected involvement in the 2012 hack of LinkedIn is a big victory for law enforcement. Even more important: viral video of the arrest.
With just two weeks left before the U.S. tax filing deadline, tax fraud is in full swing.