NordVPN: The Dark Web Offers Loyalty Discounts When Selling Your Data
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Blackmail is another specialty of cybercriminals When hackers manage to obtain highly sensitive user data, like intimate photos or compromising conversations, or encrypt documents a victim cannot proceed without, the amount they are asked to pay might greatly exceed their bank account balance. Unaware clicks on links The last scenario involves a victim unknowingly giving away their credentials, allowing bad actors to access their bank accounts and jeopardize their lifetime savings. And, lastly, do not install applications from untrusted sources, as those might be taking snaps of your phone activity and learn your credit card details when you are shopping. London, United Kingdom, March 09, 2021 --( PR.com )-- With cybercrime damages projected by Cybersecurity Ventures to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025 (half of the US GDP in 2020), an FBI agent said to the Wall Street Journal that “Every American person should assume all of their data is out there (on the dark web).”This is not surprising. Screenshot obtained by cybersecurity researchers commissioned by NordVPN.Credit card details sell for as little as $1, depending on how much money a victim has in their bank account and how hard it would be to access it.
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