Cybercrime trends in last five years

1. Presented By:
Sarbjit Gill

2. • Introduction
• Means of Cyber Crimes
• Current Scenario
• Types of Cyber attacks
• Interesting facts
• Yearly analysis – 2011 to 2015
• Lessons learned
• Prevention
• Conclusion

3. What is Cyber Crime?
Cybercrime is an illegal activity carried out using
computers or networks as the major means.

4. Computer is a target
Computer as a means
Computer Network Break-ins
Computer Sabotage
Cyberstalking
Cyber fraud
Software Piracy
Identity Theft

8. •556+ million victims per year
•1.5+ million victims per day
•18 victims per second

9. • Network hacking
Sony PlayStation Network hack
Accounts of 77 million people affected
• Clickjacking scams
Facebook
Links to videos takes the user to fake page
asking for login credentials to see the video.
Once the user enters, criminals get the access.

10. • Fraudulent android apps
Google Android Market
Google removed 22 Applications contained
fraudulent software.
• Fake antivirus
Scareware
First fake paid anti-virus.

11. • Cross-site scripting attacks:
15 million cyber attacks were reported.
450,000 yahoo user names and password were stolen.
• Data Breech:
NASA laptop containing personal information of 10,000 employees
was stolen.
No data was encrypted.
• By the end of 2012, cross site request forgery and SQL injections became
the most commonly used attacks.

12. • Malware attacks:
Source of target- emails containing malicious attachments.
Installed software's like crypto locker.
• Data theft and leakage:
Edward Snowden, the former contractor of NSA, leaked information
to Chinese government claiming US government has hacked Chinese
telecommunication companies.
• More than 50 biggest bank websites were targeted.

13. • Unauthorized access through Heartbleed and Shellshock:
Targets information protected by SSL.
Became a major threat for all companies.
Will continue to be a threat for coming years.
• Data Breach:
 Hackers attacked Target stealing 56 million credit and debit card
details.
 Company suffered huge losses.

14. • Mobiles becoming a target:
Wirelurker malware is targeting iOS devices.
Phishing attacks on mobiles.
• Social media becoming a target:
Malicious links hidden in Facebook videos.
• Attack on Internet of Things(IOT):
Hackers are now targeting SMART TV’s, routers & biometric devices.

15. • Website server software must be always up to date
• Think twice before you click or download
• Don’t rely on free wifi
• Never share your account details
• Don’t believe any email
• Install software's from known sources
• Avoid common passwords like 12345.
• Encrypt all data.

18. Technology is an endless universe, if we will find a solution to one
threat, there will be five new threats arising. So be alert and think twice
before your actions.

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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvFT89QV5Y>.
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• Real Business 2015, The 10 biggest cyber crimes of 2011, Real Business, viewed on 8 August 2015,
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