Industrialized Cybercrime Targets Trust in Public and Private Sectors

The global cyber environment has become a “society wide crisis”, where a recent slew of attacks are threatening the foundation of Western economies, an expert has warned. A year-long avalanche of detrimental attacks on British retailers; Co-op, M&S, and more recently, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR); has pointed to a far deeper concern, Charl van der Walt, head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense, told City AM. Cybercrime, he argued, has become industrialised. Attackers are only multiplying. And trust, in both the private and public…