Most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking
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Running a long company, that's where you set up a company and legitimately trade with other companies, all the while raising your credit line. Then place a massive final order and disappear.
Thats the real value of all these Equifax dumps, nobody cares about messing up your credit and freezing it is useless.
The person in the invoicing scheme got caught because they invoiced under accounts opened under the own name with the bank, that investigation took two seconds after the subpoenas went out. Between a network of formatted identities for sale and pre-breached windows computers in the same zip code, you can process anything under anyone’s identity and never raise flags with the payment processor, login alerts, or credit reports.
No idea, they ransomeware.
It's sensational to make a claim that's based on the opinion of a few people in the world, some who are motivated to sell a product. It's plausible criminals are following the path of least resistance (occum's razor) but I'd like to see data backing the claim that "most cybercrime doesn't involve computer hacking". Open data can help security teams make data driven decisions towards the pursuit of reducing risk.
It is Peter Griffin!