
The Macroeconomics of Cyber Attacks
Moody's Talks - Inside Economics
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How Enabled Is Crypto to Crypto to Ciber?
A ransom where attacks have technically been around since the late eighties. When you get the advent or, at least the when a crypto currence is tarted taking off in the early tmid two thousand tens, then it became much more feasible for ransom er attacks to happen. And so that's when you started seeing ransomer attacks against a, the individuals a in the like 304 hundred dollar amount range. As time has gone on, it's gone into te the tens of millions of dollar range and what's superinteresting about these ransom payments and te te thesr criminal organization ister largely n very disciplined.
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