Cyberattacks continue to appear to be on the rise, however one Jewish man appears to be determined to try and do his best to try and combat them as much as possible.

As we know, there are many hackers and scammers crawling the internet at the moment as they look to prey on vulnerable websites and users who may not quite necessarily know what they are doing.

Indeed, many of these criminal enterprises will look to target sites where a lot of money is held, such as those in the gambling industry, but those individuals who continue to use the real money casinos USA has available will find that they are already protected as much as possible from the unscrupulous activities due to the security protections in place.

Nonetheless, it seems Craig Newmark wants to try and combat the rise in cyberattacks across a variety of different industries as much as possible.

The founder of Craigslist has pledged to put forward more than $50 million in order to try and achieve his goal, with the 69-year-old announcing in a statement on April 12 that his foundation, the Craig Newmark Philanthropies, has already started to try and make a difference.

He revealed that groups including Black Girls Hack, Girls Who Code and the Stanford Internet Observatory had already been awarded $30 million, whereas an additional $20 million would be donated over the next year, with organizations such as Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab, the Global Cyber Alliance, and the Ransomware Task Force at the Institute of Security and Technology all included in the next round of funding.

These funds will be spent on digital education, on advancing career opportunities in cybersecurity for “everyone, regardless of background”, on the development of new tools and services to protect people and businesses, as well as on measures that will improve security tools in regard to usability and customer service.

In the statement that he released, Newmark stated: “American and Western democracy are at risk. As individuals, we’re also under attack. We need to work together to protect each other and democratic ideals in the digital world.”

Cyberattacks have already shown that they can be a rather big threat to the United States of America in the past, with politics and business having all been impacted in the past; a threat that Joe Biden’s administration is already making a top priority.

WE know that a Russian hack took place during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign for election in 2016, whilst North Korea had managed to successfully hack Sony Pictures in 2014 following the release of the film “The Interview” after it portrayed leader Kim Jong-un in a light that they did not like.

Newmark is currently retired and spends a lot of his time devoted to philanthropy these days, with the Jewish individual – who is estimated to be worth around $1 billion – known to focus on a number of causes within the Jewish community.

He has spent time fighting antisemitism, whilst he has also given $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League, as well as donations to Jewish media outlets.