In 2022, cybercrime against children increased by 20%. The FBI has gathered alarming statistics showing that seven individuals under the age of 18 are at risk every day read the complete article FBI Warns of Alarming Increase in Cybercrime Targeting Children.
Cybersecurity expert Surfshark, which combed over data from Internet Crime Centre reports covering the period from 2015 to 2022, cited the FBI’s conclusions.
Over 14,000 children were allegedly victimized online between those years, according to the FBI, costing them, or more precisely their parents and guardians, $2.9 million.
A second indication that the tendency is escalating is the fact that more than half of that amount (or almost 8,000 crimes) happened in the first three years of this decade read more FBI Warns of Alarming Increase in Cybercrime Targeting Children.
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