The 2023 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report paints an accurate but grim picture of consumer cyber safety. Some 595 million have experienced cybercrime. What is more disturbing is that 463 million of those happened in 2022!
Australia is at the top of the list – an incredible 8.3 million of us suffered from an astonishing 14% YoY increase in cybercrime. The average for other markets is around 5%. The top cyber threats were:
Most use personal data from a data breach to gain unauthorised access to bank accounts, email etc.
Not surprisingly, 40% clicked on a poisoned link in an email or text and were convinced of its legitimacy via clever impersonations of real websites.
Depending on the severity, you can spend from a few hours to hundreds trying to get your money back or, at worst, resolve identity theft. In Australia, 41% (or 8.3 million) lost an average of $242, but some lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The 2023 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report found that about 15% had suffered identity theft. That is about 1 million in ANZ. 76% lost money and an extraordinary amount of time in getting new ID documents, credit cards, bank accounts, driver’s licences etc. Only 8% of Aussies managed to recover completely.
What is worse is that 32% did not know they had suffered ID Theft until too late – being notified by a bank, credit card company, debt collector etc.
The 2023 Norton Cyber Safety Insights Report says we willingly share too much online. Data comes from:
No wonder 70% of those surveyed are worried about ID Theft! What is worse is that they are unprepared to detect and avoid it.
27% have fallen prey to an online dating scam. There are more wealthy Nigerian Princes and Arab Sheiks looking for love than you can poke a stick at. The tricks here are:
Never send money to an online romance – the chances they are real are ZERO.
Apart from being ultra-aware of the methods used by scammers and cybercriminals (which is very few of us), the key things are:
The list goes on, but despite every article, there is still over 30% who have done nothing – that is about as much protection as a knitted condom.
And a staggering 74% accept certain risks to online privacy to make their life more convenient. In other words, they have not read the privacy policies and take a risk.
Norton’s report is sobering reading, and one may say it is to justify Norton’s products. As a long-term IT journalist, I can safely say that its research is altruistic and only helps raise the issues we can report on.
While 58% of Aussies have anti-virus/malware protection on their computers or smartphones, most don’t know that you can get software that disguises your digital footprint and disables trackers on your devices. And very few (72%) know that you can get a dark web monitoring service to see what personal information is out there.
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