Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, warns financial sector is under increasing threat from cybercrime syndicates, he says. Attackers may be located remotely – based “in their bedrooms” – making it difficult to locate, identify, arrest or extradite them. Ransomware attacks have eclipsed most other global cybercrime threats, says Europol’s 2017 ICOTA report. Europol Director: “The real threat comes from a sort of exponential, remorseless increase in the scale and significance of cybercriminal capability””]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/financial-sector-under-increasing-cybercrime-threat-a-10444