![]() ![]() ![]() The average number of scam links per group reached 100. “Group-IB’s AI-based platform identified somewhere between 75 and 110 scam groups last year, and the average number of cybercriminals per group was 10 members. “A strong trend that we observed in 2021 was no-frills scammers merging into groups controlled by highly technically skilled villains,” says Antony Dolgalev, Deputy Head of Digital Risk Protection at Group-IB. ![]() Chaotic loners attract organized criminal gangs with SaaS (Scam-as-a-Service). In 2021, scams were the most common type of cybercrime.įollowing hacker groups successfully attacking business and government organizations worldwide, scammers have adopted their methods to improve their schemes. With more and more Internet users falling victim to cybercrime every day, fraudsters prefer good old techniques such as phishing (18%), scams and fraud (57%), and malware infections and reputational attacks (25%). Conference participants included the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), Scamadviser (a global independent project), Ebank (Egypt), etc. Social media are more often becoming the first point of contact between scammers and their potential victims.ĭuring the Digital Risk Summit 2022 online conference, which was divided into analytical and technology-related streams, Group-IB shared the findings of its research into various scam schemes, obtained with the help of neural networks and ML-based scoring systems incorporated in the Group-IB Digital Risk Protection platform, which is designed to mitigate external digital risks to intellectual property and brand identity. Scammers are now attracting specific groups of victims to increase conversion rates. Scammers are going into 2022 on a new level of scam attack automation: no more non-targeted users. Traffic has become the circulatory system of scam projects: Group-IB researchers emphasize that the number of websites used for purchasing and providing “gray” and illegal traffic and that lure victims into fraudulent schemes has increased by 1.5 times. Due to SaaS (Scam-as-a-Service), in 2021 the number of cybercriminals in one scam gang increased 10 times compared to 2020 and now reaches 100. This is more than the rise in the APAC region (83%) and Europe (89%). In the Middle East and Africa region, Group-IB analysts noted an increase of 150%. The number of brand-impersonating scam resources created per month also increased. The number of such groups jumped to a record high of 390, which is 3.5 times more than last year, when the maximum number of active groups was close to 110. Accounting for 57% of all financially motivated cybercrime, the scam industry is becoming more structured and involves more and more parties divided into hierarchical groups. Dubai, U.A.E.: – Group-IB, one of the global leaders in cybersecurity, today shares its analysis of the landscape of the most widespread cyber threat in the world: scams. ![]()
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