LISBON: The "remorseless" growth of cyber crime is leading to 4,000 ransom attacks a day and gangs' technological capability now threatens critical parts of the financial sector, the head of Europol said on Wednesday.
Online criminals have become so sophisticated that gangs have created "conglomerations" with company structures that specialise in different criminal activities to carry out the attacks, Rob Wainwright, who leads the EU law enforcement agency, said.
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