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Cyber-crime increasingly coming with threats of physical violence

Cyber-crime increasingly coming with threats of physical violence

While hackers used to sneak into computer systems, intimidation of staff is now more common.

But an increasing number of cyber attackers are now going further in their efforts to extort their victims - and threatening actual violence. The number of such physical threats rose more than twofold last year in the US, FBI annual data shows.

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