Cyber criminals are now shifting their attacks towards emerging markets, especially those engaging with carbon emission trades which promote low carbon technologies but whose security measures have not yet grown to combat online attacks. In Brazil, 8% of the companies under attack of Cyber Criminals and had losses above $ 1 billion of Brazilian companies. The world average is lower, 23% of companies have been targets of cyber attacks in 2011. In 2010, unsuspecting employees from German companies received bogus emails allegedly sent by phishers through seemingly legitimate but bogus registries.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2012/03/cyber-criminals-took-over-billion.html