The Republic of Srpska

  In this increasingly digitalized world, cybercrime poses a serious threat to both individuals and society at large. By attacking your device’s vulnerabilities, cybercriminals are able to gain access to confidential material, which they can then use to blackmail or extort money. INTERPOL launched the #YouMayBeNext campaign with the aim of raising public awareness that cyber-attacks can happen to everyone, and at any time. The #YouMayBeNext campaign will focus on cybercrimes that involve extortion including: • Sextortion: when criminals coerce or trick their victims into sharing explicit images or videos, which are subsequently used for blackmail. • Ransomware: a type of malware, which normally encrypts files or steals sensitive data from a system. Criminals then demand money for decryption of files, or threaten to disclose sensitive data if a ransom is not paid. • A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack: a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic. Some cybercriminals threaten individuals or organizations with a DDoS incursion unless an extortion demand is paid.