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The Takeout with Major Garrett

Former FBI Operative Eric O’Neill on how to outsmart hackers [Extended Interview]

The Takeout with Major Garrett

CBS News

News, Politics

4.6586 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Major interviews former FBI counterintelligence operative Eric O’Neill on how people can combat scam operations from hackers. Eric discusses these strategies in his latest book “Spies, Lies and Cybercrime", and even some shocking stories about how cybercriminals targeted individuals and businesses. 

Transcript

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Book's called Spies, Lies, and Cybercrime.

1:03.1

Eric, I saw a statistic in there that I want you to explain to my audience.

1:07.4

In 28, losses to cybercrime could total $30 trillion. That's the size of the U.S. economy today.

1:16.4

Exactly. And in fact, if you just look at the immense growth in cybercrime, and this is

1:22.1

dark web cybercrime, forgetting all the other stuff that's on the dark web, but just dark web cybercrime,

1:27.2

it's already the third largest economy on Earth. So it goes U.S. China, and it would go Germany

1:32.1

and then Japan, but it's the dark web if it had a GDP, and it's growing at such an incredible rate

1:37.7

that, yes, by then it could be around $30,000. $30 trillion. $30 trillion.

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