{"title":"The importance of security for the crypto industry","authors":"Marc Wilczek","doi":"10.12968/s1361-3723(22)70596-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cyber attacks are becoming an increasingly important issue in the financial industry. The recent shutdown of the darknet marketplace ‘Hydra Markets’ in April 2022, firmly established cyberthreats as a critical topic within the world of finance. Hydra was a platform that had generated a revenue of €1.2bn by 2020 from illegal business on the Internet. So how strongly is the sensitive environment of the crypto industry affected by cyber attacks, especially DDoS?","PeriodicalId":35636,"journal":{"name":"Computer Fraud and Security","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computer Fraud and Security","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/s1361-3723(22)70596-9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cyber attacks are becoming an increasingly important issue in the financial industry. The recent shutdown of the darknet marketplace ‘Hydra Markets’ in April 2022, firmly established cyberthreats as a critical topic within the world of finance. Hydra was a platform that had generated a revenue of €1.2bn by 2020 from illegal business on the Internet. So how strongly is the sensitive environment of the crypto industry affected by cyber attacks, especially DDoS?
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Computer Fraud & Security has grown with the fast-moving information technology industry and has earned a reputation for editorial excellence with IT security practitioners around the world. Every month Computer Fraud & Security enables you to see the threats to your IT systems before they become a problem. It focuses on providing practical, usable information to effectively manage and control computer and information security within commercial organizations.