Recent events and responses from the President, Homeland Security, and the NSA make it clear that there’s a lot of work to be done to reduce the United State’s cyber vulnerabilities.
Some Locations Hit Harder
Two-factor-authentication platform Rublon analyzed data from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, and found that the District of Columbia remains the most likely place in the United States to fall victim to an Internet attack, while California followed and Florida topped the list of the top states for the worst overall in terms of victims and losses. The Golden State saw losses of more than $621 million last year from cybercrime. The pandemic has certainly played a role.
“We all spent a lot more time indoors and online last year, and unfortunately as you can see from the FBI report, criminals took full advantage of this situation – extorting more than $4.2 billion from U.S. citizens through cyber-attacks. We decided to break this research down into states and analyze where cyber-attacks were most likely to occur, and in which states victims were losing the most money,” said Michal Wendrowski, managing director and founder of Rublon.
