The Evolution Of Cybercrime [Infographic]

Last Updated on May 24, 2015

A couple of days ago I held a presentation at the Cyber Crime Conference in Rome about the strategies for thwarting Cybercrime. While preparing the slides I collected some material with which I prepared the following infographic dealing with the evolution of Cyber Crime.

The romantic times of phone phreaking are definitively gone and today the Cyber Crime is an organized industry with a complex ecosystem which generated in 2011, $ 388 billion in 24 countries. A value dangerously close to the value of global drug trafficking.

Scroll down the infographic and discover the HACK factor (Hacktivism, Availability, Cloud/Mobile and Know-How) which influences the rapid growth of the Cyber Crime Phenomena.