This data story explores how cybercrime evolved from isolated espionage to a global, profit-driven industry between 2014 and 2025. Using open data from the UMD Cyber Events Database (2014–2025), the dashboard traces how industrialized cyber operations have overtaken traditional state espionage, reshaping the global threat landscape. The first section visualizes the surge in global cyber incidents, identifying 2020 as a turning point when organized criminal groups became the dominant threat actors. The second section unpacks attacker “fingerprints,” mapping how intent connects to methods, showing clear pathways from financial motives to ransomware, espionage to server intrusions, and activism to DDoS and defacement. Finally, the Australian story reveals that local trends mirror global pressure points, with public administration, health, and education hit hardest. This dashboard was built in R using flexdashboard, ggplot2, and tidyverse, with a minimalist visual design emphasizing clarity, ethical transparency, and storytelling through data.

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