"Nigeria & Romania Ranked Among Top Cybercrime Havens"

Russia, Ukraine, China, and the US topped the list of countries with the most cybercriminal activity in an academic study on cybercrime, but Nigeria, Romania, and Brazil being among the top-ranked is considered surprising. A high World Cybercrime Index (WCI) score is typical for countries with high technology levels and state-sponsored threat actors that overlap with cybercriminal groups. Nigeria led the scams category, and Romania led data and identity theft. Miranda Bruce, a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at the University of Oxford, says this is the first time researchers have been able to compare countries based on specific attributes and cybercriminal approaches. Cybersecurity experts have long associated Russia with banking and ransomware and China with intellectual property theft and financial crimes. This article continues to discuss findings from a survey of cybersecurity experts on the top cybercrime-producing nations.

Dark Reading reports "Nigeria & Romania Ranked Among Top Cybercrime Havens"

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