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2014: The Year Extortion Went Mainstream — Krebs on Security

By Securities Docket on June 26, 2014, 3:56 pm

The year 2014 may well go down in the history books as the year that extortion attacks went mainstream. Fueled largely by the emergence of the anonymous online currency Bitcoin, these modern-day shakedowns are blurring the lines between online and offline fraud, and giving novice computer users a crash course in modern-day cybercrime.

via 2014: The Year Extortion Went Mainstream — Krebs on Security

Posted in Risk Mgmt, Top | Tagged Extortion

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