Ransomware has gone professional, with criminal consultants, affiliates and brokers – arresting them all will be difficult.
- Professor of Criminology, University of Leeds
The centralisation of internet infrastructure leaves swathes of the online world vulnerable to sudden outages.
We unpacked a large cybercrime business network and found a group relying on business 101 tactics: VIP memberships, cheap trial offers and a customer base reluctant to spend.
Measures that can be taken include good cyber hygiene and legal action.
Facebook is planning to put end-to-end encryption on all its messaging services soon. But governments aren’t happy about it, as it could make it harder to catch criminals.
Cyber-criminals are targeting city authorities because they often pay out – but there are other ways to protect public data and services.
The latest malware is designed especially to make small companies pay through the nose for their data.
It turns out you can’t ensure cyber-security in the world’s fifth-largest employer if there’s no one in charge of making it happen.
UK plc has a cybersecurity mountain to climb.
An increase in the crime figures doesn’t necessarily mean an increase in crime.
The Internet Watch foundation is to share its database of abusive image digital signatures in a drive to clean up the internet.
Groups like Letzgo Hunting claim to fill the gaps left by inefficient police work, but does their approach undermine police work and treatment?
Gangs of career criminals in Britain look very different to the stories told by Scorcese or Coppola. They are fluid, multi-cultural and recent research sheds new light on how they use the dirty money.
When asked in 1977 what he would do now that Elvis was dead, his manager Colonel Parker allegedly replied: “Why, I’ll just go right on managing him!”. In Parker’s mind, neither Elvis’ name, image, likeness…
If cyber-crime is the tier one (most serious) threat that we are told it is, and we are experiencing upwards of 2-3 million cyber-threats each year, then why have we only had 350 or so prosecutions under…
An increasingly popular weekend pastime among fans of Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Inspector Morse and others, are murder mystery parties at which participants pit their wits against secret killers. But…
Following an agreement in the European Parliament on the 4th July, EU countries are to strengthen their domestic laws against the more serious forms of cyber-crime. We can now expect to see prison sentences…
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