Matthew RosenquistFounder & CISO Advisor, Cybersecurity Insights · CISO, Cybersecurity Strategist, & Industry Advisor

Cybercrime Follows the Path of Least Resistance

24 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker argues that both nation‑state actors and ordinary cybercriminals gravitate toward the path of least resistance, and that cyber avenues provide an especially easy and effective means to cause disruption and steal large sums of money. He notes a growing investment in cyber attacks because of their high payoff and low effort, highlighting a recent cryptocurrency exchange breach that resulted in an estimated $1.5 billion loss. The speaker emphasizes that the astronomical scale of such attacks, especially when targeting critical infrastructure, underscores the urgent threat posed by cybercrime.

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The attackers, whether they're nation states or whether they're a simple cybercriminal, they like the path of least resistance. And cyber is one of those easy paths. It doesn't take much to get in. We're seeing cybercriminals invest more and more because it's so effective. It's so easy to cause disruption, to steal money. You know, we had even this year, we had a recent attack against a cryptocurrency exchange 1, almost $1.5 billion. This isn't somebody going in and stealing $20,000 from a, from a bank. I mean, this is $1.5 billion in a single attack. So the scale is astronomical when you start getting and using and leveraging cybersecurity against critical infrastructure.