The Group Element of Cybercrime: Types, Dynamics, and Criminal Operations

Nurse, Jason R. C.; Bada, Maria

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198812746.013.36

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“…There have been anecdotes of cybercriminals providing ransom payment FAQs, helpdesks, and even offering discounts to individuals who cannot pay the full demands. This demonstrates a level of sophistication by criminals where crime is becoming an industry (see Nurse and Bada [52]), capable of even offering "customer services". At the same time, there is an increasing amount of ransomware attacks, e.g., the WannaCry attack in 2017, which affected nearly 100 countries and critical services such as the U.K.s National Health Service (NHS) [69].…”

Section: Account and Password Hackingmentioning

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Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit

Nurse¹

2018

The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology

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Cybercrime is a significant challenge to society, but it can be particularly harmful to the individuals who become victims. This chapter engages in a comprehensive and topical analysis of the cybercrimes that target individuals. It also examines the motivation of criminals that perpetrate such attacks and the key human factors and psychological aspects that help to make cybercriminals successful. Key areas assessed include social engineering (e.g., phishing, romance scams, catfishing), online harassment (e.g., cyberbullying, trolling, revenge porn, hate crimes), identity-related crimes (e.g., identity theft, doxing), hacking (e.g., malware, cryptojacking, account hacking), and denial-of-service crimes. As a part of its contribution, the chapter introduces a summary taxonomy of cybercrimes against individuals and a case for why they will continue to occur if concerted interdisciplinary efforts are not pursued.

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Section: Account and Password Hackingmentioning

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Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit

Nurse¹

2018

The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology

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“…Donations were expected to be made in Bitcoins. In addition to the typical techniques used to convince victims, the attackers also asked recipients to share the message as much as possible, thus aiming to exploit the increased perceived trustworthiness of messages vetted by close ones [ 7 , 46 ]. Finally, also communication platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, were impersonated in emails and through fake websites.…”

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The COVID‐19 scamdemic: A survey of phishing attacks and their countermeasures during COVID‐19

Al‐Qahtani

Cresci

2022

IET Information Security

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The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with an equally-threatening scamdemic: a global epidemic of scams and frauds. The unprecedented cybersecurity concerns emerged during the pandemic sparked a torrent of research to investigate cyber-attacks and to propose solutions and countermeasures. Within the scamdemic, phishing was by far the most frequent type of attack. This survey paper reviews, summarises, compares and critically discusses 54 scientific studies and many reports by governmental bodies, security firms and the grey literature that investigated phishing attacks during COVID-19, or that proposed countermeasures against them. Our analysis identifies the main characteristics of the attacks and the main scientific trends for defending against them, thus highlighting current scientific challenges and promising avenues for future research and experimentation.

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“…al., 2013; Holt & Lampke, 2010; Leukfeldt et. al., 2020; Nurse & Bada, 2019). This makes it important to address theory that goes beyond cybercrime alone.…”

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Countering Distrust in Illicit Online Networks: The Dispute Resolution Strategies of Cybercriminals

Dupont

Lusthaus

2021

Social Science Computer Review

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The core of this article is a detailed investigation of the dispute resolution system contained within Darkode, an elite cybercriminal forum. Extracting the dedicated disputes section from within the marketplace, where users can report bad behavior and register complaints, we carry out content analysis on these threads. This involves both descriptive statistics across the data set and qualitative analysis of particular posts of interest, leading to a number of new insights. First, the overall level of disputes is quite high, even though members are vetted for entry in the first instance. Second, the lower ranked members of the marketplace are the most highly represented category for both the plaintiffs and defendants. Third, vendors are accused of malfeasance far more often than buyers, and their “crimes” are most commonly either not providing the product/service or providing a poor one. Fourth, the monetary size of the disputes is surprisingly small. Finally, only 23.1% of disputes reach a clear outcome.

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The Group Element of Cybercrime: Types, Dynamics, and Criminal Operations

Cited by 17 publications

References 53 publications

Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit

Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit

The COVID‐19 scamdemic: A survey of phishing attacks and their countermeasures during COVID‐19

Countering Distrust in Illicit Online Networks: The Dispute Resolution Strategies of Cybercriminals

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