Less than 5% of Cybercrime reported

depends on what they consider a reportable cybercrime. would you go to the guards to report a credit card transaction that had to be refunded by your credit card company because the seller never sent the items bought? do you report spearphishing attempts? do you report fake websites when you find them? what about ads for obviously illegal goods and services?

There is also the possibility of course that crimes are being reported (like recognised stolen goods being sold online) but the Garda that it is reported to does not see it as a cybercrime or something he can do anything about because its online.

Not sure how much of these will fall under the GDPR umbrella so I don't know what difference it will make as that is more for data management rather than actual crimes.

pah wrote: »

I think a lot of people, individuals and businesses feel there's no point reporting as the suspects are often in another country or are too difficult to identify. It can be hard to visualise a real person behind a virtual crime. If someone gets their bag dipped in the middle of the city centre where they've walked a few streets and been through a dozen stores the chances of getting it back or identifying a suspect are slim to none but that doesn't stop people reporting the crime anyway.

Sure, it's a nice ideal, but in the real world, it's utterly pointless due to the sheer scale of it.

If we were to report every single spear phishing, vishing, spam mail etc attempt. we simply wouldn't ever get any actual work done. Likewise, if every company reported everything, the Gardaí simply wouldn't have the capacity to look at any of it.

Reporting where it's actually successful makes sense, for the rest, there's just no point.