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Non and Sub-State Actors: Cybercrime, Terrorism, and Hackers
Chapter 6 opens with an overview of outsider threats. These range from ‘script kiddies’, to organized criminal gangs, ‘hacktivist’ groups, and...
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Fieldwork Experiences Researching Cybercriminals
Cybercriminals are an elusive population to study. This makes social research with cybercriminals as valuable as it is scarce. To stimulate research...
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Neutralizing Cyber Attacks: Techniques of Neutralization and Willingness to Commit Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructure by ideology-based hackers may have both significant financial costs and public safety consequences. Scholars...
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Online Fraud
Crimes have many faces, and with technology coming into play, this has been more refined and challenging. The modern world is evolving so rapidly,...
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The Trends of Cybersecurity and Its Emerging Challenges in Africa
The cost of cybersecurity is steadily increasing, both in terms of the overall loss to the organisation and in terms of the number of cyberattacks....
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Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology
Criminological literature on crime and deviance in cyberspace has boomed in recent years with most studies focusing on computer integrity crimes,...
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Global Voices in Hacking (Multinational Views)
This chapter will give an overview of research on hacking in the Netherlands and other non-English-language countries. Findings from these countries...
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What the Hack: Reconsidering Responses to Hacking
Like most criminological research, much of the research on hacking has predominantly focused upon the Northern Metropolis. As a result, there is a...
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Ransomware and the Robin Hood effect?: Experimental evidence on Americans’ willingness to support cyber-extortion
ObjectivesRansomware attacks have become a critical security threat worldwide. However, existing research on ransomware has largely ignored public...
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Netherlands
Cybersecurity in the Netherlands, in a nutshell, is a trifecta of threats, selfish interests, and resilience. Cybersecurity measures can act as a...
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Cyber Victimisation, Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Panels
In recent years, individuals study and work from home with some degree of normality. Technology and the Internet have become an essential part of...
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Cryptocurrency Fraud: A Glance into the Perimeter of Fraud
Technology has made a lot of changes in the world, and the same has been identified and made public. With the growing digital world and online...
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The Scourge of Ransomware: The Cybercrime Growth Industry of the Early 2020s
This chapter traces the growth of that form of cybercrime termed “ransomware”—a particularly harmful digital crime whereby networks are penetrated,...
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The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam
This study aims to better understand transnational computer fraud in Vietnam utilizing crime script analysis. Data from criminal profiles and...
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Cyberspace and Economy: Analyzing the Impact of Contemporary Cyberthreats on the Global Financial Order
Cyberspace has not only increased the options for the people but also has opened the chances of being victims of cybercrime. This double-edged sword...
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State-Sponsored Economic Espionage in Cyberspace: Risks and Preparedness
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns added a new level of uncertainty, vulnerabilities and national security challenges for the United States. In...
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Alerting consciences to reduce cybercrime: a quasi-experimental design using warning banners
ObjectiveAiming to reduce distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks by alerting the consciences of Internet users, this paper evaluates the...
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The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence
In the food industry, the level of awareness of the need for food defence strategies has accelerated in recent years, in particular, mitigating the...
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Cybercrime-as-a-Service Operations
This chapter explores the cybercrime-as-a-service operations that have changed the cybercrime marketplace from a direct sales model to a managed...
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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Frauds: Emerging Concern
Technology has taken the financial markets and its instruments to new heights. With the change in technology, its working new dimensions are being...