Americans lost $10.3 billion to a wide variety of internet scams last year, according to an FBI report released this month.
The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022.last year, according to an FBI report released this month.
The most highly reported crimes were phishing expeditions, with 300,497 victims reporting over $52 million in losses in 2022, according to the bureau. Phishing, defined as "the use of unsolicited email, text messages, and telephone calls purportedly from a legitimate company requesting personal, financial, and/or login credentials," is frequently successful because phishing emails will often resemble those from people victims know personally, prompting them to click on unsecured links.
By far, the most heavily targeted industry for ransomware attacks was the healthcare industry, followed by critical manufacturing' and government. Earlier this year, the Justice Department disrupted a ransomware gang called HIVE, which was responsible for 87 incidents targeting critical infrastructure, the report says.
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