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SECUREWORKS
RELEASES 2018 STATE OF
CYBERCRIME REPORT
Secureworks Counter Threat Unit has published the
2018 State of Cybercrime Report, revealing findings on
cybercriminal behaviour and insight into threat activity
based on the team’s incident response analysis and
original research.
S
ecureworks, a leading global
cybersecurity company that protects
organisations in the digitally
connected world, has released the findings
of its State of Cybercrime Report 2018 to
illuminate the cybercrime trends and events
that shaped the year.
From July 2017 through to June 2018,
Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU)
researchers analysed incident response
outcomes and conducted original research
to gain insight into threat activity and
behaviour across 4,400 companies.
Among their findings was evidence that a
small subset of professional criminal actors is
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responsible for the bulk of cybercrime-related
damage, employing tools and techniques as
sophisticated, targeted and insidious as most
nation-state actors.
These sophisticated and capable criminal
gangs operate largely outside of the Dark
Web, although they may leverage low-level
criminal tools occasionally when it serves
their purposes.
At the same time, there has been no lull in
the overall volume of threats and low-level
cybercriminal activity remains a robust
market economy, often taking place in view
of security researchers and law enforcement
on the Dark Web. While relatively simple in
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AMONG THEIR
FINDINGS WAS
EVIDENCE THAT
A SMALL SUBSET
OF PROFESSIONAL
CRIMINAL ACTORS
IS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE BULK OF
CYBERCRIME-
RELATED DAMAGE.
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