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New RiskIQ report reveals
£2.3 million is lost to
cybercrime every minute
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• 0.21: Magecart attacks detected
every minute
“As the scale of the Internet continues to
proliferate, so does the threat landscape,”
said Lou Manousos, CEO of RiskIQ. “By
compiling the vast numbers associated with
cybercrime in the past year, we made the
research more accessible by framing it in the
context of an ‘Internet minute’.
$1,062,000
$17,700 $11.5
“We are entering our third year defining
the sheer scale of attacks that take place
across the Internet using the latest third-
The data shows that in a single Internet
minute, £2,300,000 is lost to cybercrime.
Top companies pay £20 per minute due to
security breaches.
Additional malicious activity includes:
• £1,550: The cost of hacks on
cryptocurrency exchanges every minute
• £14,200: Lost from phishing attacks
per minute
• £17,817: The projected by-the-minute
cost of global ransomware events
in 2019
• £8,100: Identifier records compromised
every minute
• 7: Malicious redirectors detected
each minute
• 2.4 phishing sites stood up per minute
• 0.32: Blacklisted apps by-the-minute
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iskIQ, a global leader in attack
surface management, has released
its annual Evil Internet Minute report.
The company tapped proprietary global
intelligence and third-party research to
analyse the volume of malicious activity on
the Internet, revealing that cybercriminals
cost the global economy £2.3 million every
minute last year, a total of £1.2 trillion.
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