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With cybercriminals costing the
global economy US$600 billion
last year alone, global digital
threat management company
RiskIQ tapped proprietary and
third-party research to examine
the growing volume of malicious
activity on the Internet to reveal
the latest ‘Evil Internet Minute.’
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The data shows that in a single ‘evil’
Internet minute, US$1,138,888 is
lost to cybercrime and 1,861 people
fall victim. Despite businesses’
best efforts to guard against
external cyberthreats, spending
up to US$171,233 in 60 seconds,
attackers continue to proliferate and
launch successful campaigns online.
“As the Internet and its community
continue to grow at a rapid pace, the
threat landscape targeting it grows
at scale as well,” said RiskIQ CEO
Elias Manousos. “We made the vast
numbers associated with it more
accessible by framing them in the
context of an ‘Internet minute’.
“Leveraging the latest research
as well as our own global threat
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Attacker tactics range from malware
to phishing to supply chain attacks
targeting third-parties.
Their motives include monetary gain,
large-scale reputational damage,
politics and espionage. Cybercriminals
continue to find success in a range
of tactics including launching
1,274 pieces of unique malware
and deploying more than nine
malvertisements each ‘evil Internet
minute’. RiskIQ’s research has also
uncovered additional malicious activity
each minute, ranging from blacklisted
mobile apps to malvertising:
• A total of 1.5 organisations fell victim
to ransomware attacks every minute
with an average cost to businesses
of US$15,221
As the Internet
and its community
continue to grow at
a rapid pace, the
threat landscape
targeting it grows at
scale as well.
intelligence, we’re defining the
sheer scale of attacks that take
place across the Internet to help
businesses better understand what
they’re up against on the open web.”
• There was a total of 0.17 blacklisted
mobile apps
• There were 0.21 new phishing domains
• A total of 0.07 incidents of the
Magecart credit card skimmer
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