Cybercrime to be added to police statistics
CYBERCRIME will be added to crime statistics next year as police gather more expertise and knowledge about this threat.
National police commissioner General Khehla Sithole said the cybercrime strategy was at an advanced stage. He said they had travelled to China and Thailand to learn more about it.
“It’s highly technological in nature. We are developing more cybercrime capacity in crime intelligence. We will have the stats next year,” Sithole said.
Sergey Novikov, deputy director of the global research and analysis team at Kapersky Lab, said collaboration and shared intelligence between police forces and cyber security companies was the only way to combat the rise of cybercrime.
Novikov was visiting the city this week to raise awareness on cybercrime trends. He said the country had become a cybercrime destination.
“There are no borders online, so it’s hardly surprising that cyber threats are borderless too… it’s a worldwide issue. These threats don’t target just governments and infrastructure, but other organisations and even individuals. Some victims are targeted directly, others are collateral damage,” he said.
Novikov said a united community against cyber threats that knew no borders was needed.