{"id":24964,"date":"2012-10-24T14:27:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=24964"},"modified":"2012-10-24T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T14:33:18","slug":"sa-consumer-cybercrime-at-r3-7bn-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/24964\/sa-consumer-cybercrime-at-r3-7bn-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"SA consumer cybercrime at R3.7bn annually"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2012 edition of the Norton<\/a> Cybercrime Report calculates the direct costs associated with global consumer cybercrime at $110 billion over the past twelve months. In South Africa, the costs for the same period amount to R3.7 billion.<\/p>\n

Every second, 18 adults become a victim of cybercrime, resulting in more than one-and-a-half million cybercrime victims each day on a global level. The losses amount to an average of US $197 per victim across the world, and R1,550 per victim in South Africa.<\/p>\n

In the past twelve months, an estimated 556 million adults across the world (with 2.39 million in South Africa) experienced cybercrime, Norton said.<\/p>\n

This, it added, represents 46% of online adults (64% in South Africa) who have been victims of cybercrime in the past twelve months, on par with the findings from 2011 (45%).<\/p>\n

The 2012 survey showed an increase in \u201cnew\u201d forms of cybercrime compared to last year, such as those found on social networks or mobile devices – a sign that cybercriminals are starting to focus their efforts on these increasingly popular platforms.<\/p>\n

One in five online adults (21%), globally, and almost one in three (28%) in South Africa have been a victim of either social or mobile cybercrime, and 39% (48% in South Africa) of social network users have been victims of social cybercrime, specifically:<\/p>\n