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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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The second most significant threat encountered by European cybercrime investigators in 2018 was compromised data.
After ransomware, the compromise of data represents the second-most prominent cyber-threat tackled by European cybercrime investigators. This most frequently relates to the illegal acquisition of financial data, such as credit card information, online banking credentials or cryptocurrency wallets, through means such as phishing, data breaches and information gathering malware. Such data is easily monetisable, either through its sale on the digital underground or direct use in fraud. This is also a major source to facilitate CNP fraud (see chapter 6).
Second to financial data, is personal data and other login credentials. While not directly monetisable (other than through its sale), such data is potentially much more valuable, particularly to the more sophisticated cybercrime gangs who may have the capability to best exploit it. Criminals can use the data to facilitate other targeted cyberattacks such as
spear phishing, CEO/BEC fraud, account takeover, business process compromise and other frauds, any of which could yield much more significant criminal profits.