In popular culture, cyber criminals are portrayed in ominous hooded sweatshirts, typing away on command lines, surrounded by darkness. And we expect a victim to be greeted with a dramatic “SYSTEM HACKED” message followed by a skull and the signature of a notorious hacking group.
These are some of the innocuous and even fun persistent visual myths and cues we strongly associate with cyber crime. And while these present little to no danger except to stock imagery users, there are other myths that create dangerous complacency: small and medium businesses are safe from ransomware; the cloud is secure; encryption solves everything; Linux and containers are immune from cyberattacks.
