The Calgary police cybercrimes unit says reports of cybercrime in the city jumped by about 50 per cent in 2024 compared to a year earlier.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.WATCH: Calgary police are looking for ways to stop cybercrime as it is becoming one of the fastest growing crimes in the city. Elissa Carpenter reports.
According to data presented at the Calgary Police Commission meeting on Wednesday, there were 43 ransomware attacks last year — including one targeted at the Calgary Public Library that forced branches across the city to temporarily closed. That compares to 28 ransomware attacks in 2023.The Calgary police cybercrimes unit says Calgarians lost $42.8 million in cryptocurrency-related cybercrimes in 2024, compared to $28.5 million a year earlier.
“The scam will generally be allowed to keep running until the point where you want to try and take out money,” added Gilmore, “and then we hear lots of things, like they wanted more money for tax purposes now because now you have to pay taxes to get that money out — and usually there will be no chance of getting your money out then, so they will cut off all communication, they’ll shut down that website, they’ll shut down that account.
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