Cyber crime is considered a ticking time bomb as police recorded RM1 billion in losses from victims of such crime from January until last month.
Cyber crime is considered a ticking time bomb as police recorded RM1 billion in losses from victims of such crime from January until last month.
Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said Malaysia was ranked sixth globally in terms of cyber crime threat risks by United States-based IT security developer, Sophos, in its three-month security threat report this year.
“It (cyber crime) is serious and we must educate the public to prevent it,” he said at a press conference after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Royal Malaysian Police and Limkokwing University here yesterday.
The MoU was signed by Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department director, Datuk Syed Ismail Syed Azizan, and Limkokwing University of Creative Technology senior vice-president Datuk Raja Aznil Raja Hashim.
It provides the university with a five-year contract to provide contents, such as posters, video clips and animations to the police in cyber crime prevention campaigns.
Bakri said out of the RM1 billion in losses from cyber crime in the first six months of this year, 9,857 cases were reported with 7,801 of these solved and 3,385 people detained.
He said last year, losses amounted to RM1.115 billion.