American consumers prime target for cybercriminals

SCMmagazine.com reports that US-based consumers are more likely to be targeted by cybercriminals, as they are more economically potent that their peers from other countries. According to Todd Bransford,  the vice president of marketing for internet-monitoring firm Cyveillance, more than 80 percent of the compromised credit cards on the internet were issued by U.S.-based banks.

Although the overall level of phishing has decreased across the internet, the new trend in criminal internet activities suggests that brands have become the prime targets for phishing scams. As with the credit-card hijacking, the percentage of brands attacked is the same in US. Although the fact that Americans should be the likely targets for malware creators was abvious for quite some time, the scale of the US-based attacks is still staggering.

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