A geographic guide with cybercrime threat and target trends in 10 notable countries.
February 20, 2016
When we picture hackers at work, it’s easy to get caught up imagining young men quietly working in a dark Dostoevskian garret in a bleak post-Soviet town. Or, rows of uniformed Chinese in a sterile Far Eastern military office. But are these images realistic? While the former Soviet bloc and China certainly make up their share of global hacking, cybercriminals have a broadly global reach and a great deal of international diversity. Even though major attacks are increasingly carried out by multinational rings, there is still often a national flair to online crime, and countries in Latin America, Western Europe, and the developing world are all well-represented.
Here are some of the notable countries, in no particular order whatsoever.
Sources for population and economic data: CIA Factbook and Wikipedia.
Sources for photos: Pixabay
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