Cyber crimes are inevitable to any system of cyber technologies and no country is safe to threats whose only purpose is to inflict harm to others. Computer system infiltration poses great threat to information and data, especially those sensitive and confidential, that may cause serious infrastructure damage. The United States, China, Brazil, Germany, India, and Russia share a specific commonality when it comes to cyber technologies. These nations are the top cyber crime countries and has been labeled as the biggest source of cyber attacks. The crimes that are mainly exercised in these countries include spams, phishing, fee fraud, and digital piracy. Unlike other countries, the United States seemed to be the most involved in cyber related crimes. Spam, more specifically email spams, is one of the most common type of cyber attacks that cause extensive loss of human resources due to nuisance of email spam. The United States is one of the top countries, along with China, Brazil, and Russia, that contribute to the internet traffic caused by spam. Phishing is also a cyber fraud involved with the United States, and this time, the nation is both on the defensive and offensive side. Along with China, Russia, Ukraine, and Brazil, the American country is one of the top sources of phishing, despite being the country who is targeted the most by phishing threats. Advanced fee fraud is another crime that involves the loss of money from the victim and, in worst cases, kidnap-ransom can occur. Nigeria is infamous to be the top source of advance fee fraud, but United States and two other African countries are involved in this kind of attack. On a more minor but common cybercrime is digital piracy. Comparatively to other cyber crimes whose expansion growth decreased, digital piracy is a crime that has a constant rate of offense. Once again, the United states is one of the top pirating countries, along with China, Russia, and Ukraine.

Cyber Crime Nation Typologies: K-Means Clustering of Countries Based on Cyber Crime Rates by Alex Kigerl