Cybercrime has been a model of business success for the past decade. The number of Internet users has increased 500 percent since 2000–nearing two billion potential cyber victims. The days of destruction purely for bragging rights are over–now it’s all about making money and not getting caught. The goal is to fly under the radar–compromise as many PCs, steal as many identities, take as much money as possible before being detected and without getting caught. The rise of mobile computing on smartphones and tablets gives cybercriminals that many more targets.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2127014/cybercrime–recession-proof-growth-industry.html