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Risky Bulletin: Cybercrime losses passed $20 billion last year

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Risky Bulletin: Cybercrime losses passed $20 billion last year

The FBI reported that Americans lost nearly $21 billion to cybercrime in the past year, the highest annual total since the agency began tracking such data 25 years ago. Investment scams led the categories with $8.6 billion in reported losses, of which $6.2 billion involved cryptocurrency theft. Cyber-enabled fraud accounted for approximately 85% of total losses at $17.7 billion.

Why it matters: Organizations and individuals need to understand the financial scale of cybercrime threats, particularly investment fraud targeting users through cryptocurrency channels, to justify security investments and implement appropriate fraud detection controls.

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