The World Cybercrime Index: What is it and why is it important?

Cybercriminals are notoriously tricky to pin down. They are experts in obfuscation and misdirection, masters of avoiding consequences. Not since the early days of the Wild West have criminals managed to evade capture and maintain anonymity as effectively as modern cybercriminals do. Part of the reason for these staggeringly low conviction rates is that we usually have little idea of what country an attacker is in. We can make educated guesses: if a cybercrime group, for example, launches an explicitly …

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