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Cybercrime includes illegal digital activity such as hacking, fraud, and extortion, posing risks to data, systems, finances, and public safety.

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Cybercrime involves illegal activities conducted using computers or networks, such as hacking, identity theft, financial fraud, and distribution of malware. These crimes exploit vulnerabilities in software, hardware, or human behavior to gain unauthorized access, steal data, or disrupt services. Understanding the methods and motives behind cybercrime is essential for identifying relevant threats and attack vectors.

For security practitioners, cybercrime highlights the importance of protecting critical systems against exploitation through strong access controls, timely patching of vulnerabilities, and user awareness training to prevent social engineering attacks. Monitoring for indicators of compromise and analyzing threat intelligence related to cybercriminal tactics can improve detection and mitigation efforts. Effective defense requires a focus on both technical safeguards and operational readiness to respond to evolving criminal techniques.

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Credential and cryptocurrency theft, live surveillance, ransomware - an attacker's Swiss Army knife A new remote access trojan (RAT) being sold on cybercrime networks enables double extortion attacks on Windows machines by bundling ransomware and data theft, along with credential and cryptocurrency stealers, live surveillance, and a whole host of other illicit capabilities, all controllable from a centralized dashboard.…

More from The Register 28 Feb 2026, 11:59 a.m. Credentials Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Extortion Microsoft Ransomware Remote Access Trojan Theft Trojan
Bank Info Security 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Police Target Violent Online Predators Incubated by the Com

28 Countries Join Forces to Pursue Violent Online Extremism Targeting ChildrenA global law enforcement initiative to coordinate the disruption of violent online extremism targeting minors and vulnerable individuals swept up 30 suspected members of "The Com," the decentralized, largely Western adolescent cybercrime community.

More from Bank Info Security 27 Feb 2026, 8:30 a.m. Children Cybercrime Outage Vulnerability

Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.…

More from The Register 24 Feb 2026, 12:41 a.m. Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Compromise Cybercrime Exposure Firewalls Incident Report Russia