Brazilians lost $ 22 billion to cybercrime in 2017

Brazil is a benchmark in cybercrime. Phishing scams are often very successful here and are the most commonly detected malicious activity by security companies. Like every year, Symantec publishes the Norton Cyber ​​Security Insights Report, which covers the value of cybercrime worldwide - and, unfortunately, for Brazil, not good news.

Brazilian cybercrime has grown from 2016 to 2017: $ 10.3 billion to $ 22.5 billion. At the current price, we are talking about an amount of R $ 72.1 billion that fell into the hands of malicious agents worldwide - 62 million Brazilians fell in scams, about 60% of the connected population.

Across the globe, the bill stands at: $ 172 billion stolen from 978 million computer and smartphone users

To understand how the government should handle cybercrime, Norton still conducted a global survey and found that 81% of Symantec consumers believe "cybercrime should be treated as any criminal act, " while 80% believe "cybercrime is wrong." ; business and government should do more to protect the population. "

Still, with $ 172 billion stolen from users worldwide, 1 in 4 Norton consumers believe stolen information online is not as bad as having something stolen "in the real world."

• Follow the full study here.

Brazilians lost $ 22 billion to cybercrime in 2017 via TecMundo