Be careful out there, y’all.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants Alabamians to be more vigilant to the looming dangers of cybercrime.
“The level of pain that cybercrime has induced on Americans is ever increasing. The FBI is trying to prevent and disrupt this kind of activity. The more we can get our message out there, the less victims we will have.”Director Christopher Wray last month told members of Congress that cybercriminals are not only bent on disrupting national security, but also the nation’s economic security.Take last year, when the Colonial Pipeline disruption took place due to a ransomware attack in May 2021.
With better technology also comes more attacks. In 2019, for example, most of the cyberthreats could be linked to a particular kind of malware called RYUK.The actors may be standard criminals, but other threats are coming from state-sponsored threats within Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. China, in particular, is posing a particular challenge.