Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. While some criminals steal millions at a time from larger businesses, many more hope to evade notice by stealing relatively small amounts from small businesses and individuals. The cases illustrate what is a fast-growing problem. Victims of botnets often don't know their computers are infected until they've suffered losses. Victims' computers were most commonly infected when a user clicked on a link in an email that appeared to come from a trusted source. Related: Inside the FBI's massive cybercrime bust In the case of Gameover Zeus, one victim lost $6.9 million from a fraudulent wire transfer from a bank account. it paid a ransom to cyber criminals to restore access to its files after its systems were infected by Cryptolocker. attorney in Pittsburgh, whose office filed the charges, said the action was intended to help "hundreds of thousands of computer users who were unwittingly infected and victimized."Īmong the victims, Hickton said, was the police department in Swansea, Mass. In its first two months, criminals extorted an estimated $27 million from victims, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said Monday.ĭavid Hickton, U.S.
Since emerging in 2013, Cryptolocker has been used to attack about 200,000 computers, half of which were in the U.S. victims, and up to one million computers worldwide were infected since 2011, according to the FBI. Gameover Zeus was responsible for more than $100 million in losses among U.S.
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