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Cyber-crime increasingly coming with threats of physical violence (www.bbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub [B] to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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But an increasing number of cyber attackers are now going further in their efforts to extort their victims - and threatening actual violence. The number of such physical threats rose more than twofold last year in the US, FBI annual data shows.