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Cybercrime Kingpins and the Modern Cybercrime Infrastructure

Thu, Nov 14, 3:30 to 4:50pm, Salon 3, Lower B2 Level

Abstract

The cybercrime landscape has changed dramatically following the introduction of cloud technologies in the late noughties and more latterly the Internet of Things. Essential information flows have become big data, which have themselves caused ‘big crimes’. Importantly, the distribution of criminal labour in cyberspace has changed as the cybercrime landscape has expanded. This paper complements other works that are part of the interdisciplinary EPSRC funded CRITiCal (Cloud Technologies and Cybercrime) and EMPHASIS (Ransomware) projects to explore what we know (and don’t know) about the various offender groups in the big data cybercrime ecosystem. Firstly, the paper will map out the division of criminal labour in the cybercrime ecosystem. Secondly, it will separate out the primary upstream offenders and downstream offenders before, thirdly, discussing the roles of the Kingpins who broker criminal services online which facilitate and enable cybercrime. The paper will finally, describe the functional (and dysfunctional) relationships between the different offending groups.

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