Cybercrime

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Enhancing relationships between criminology and cybersecurity

‘Cybercrime’ is an umbrella concept used by criminologists to refer to traditional crimes that are enhanced via the use of networked technologies (i.e. cyber-enabled crimes) and newer forms of crime that would not exist without networked technologies (i.e. cyber-dependent crimes). Cybersecurity is similarly a very broad concept and diverse field of practice. For computer scientists, […] Read more

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Countering distrust in illicit online networks: the dispute resolution strategies of cybercriminals

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 […] Read more

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La cybercriminalité au temps de la COVID-19

This content is not available in the selected language. La pandémie à laquelle nous faisons face depuis le début de l’année 2020 a révélé de manière frappante la nature polymorphe des crises contemporaines, qui se propagent rapidement selon une logique multisectorielle et multiniveaux. En effet, la crise sanitaire s’est diffusée à une multitude de secteurs […] Read more

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The cyber-resilience of financial institutions: significance and applicability

The growing sophistication, frequency and severity of cyberattacks targeting financial sector institutions highlight their inevitability and the impossibility of completely protecting the integrity of critical computer systems. In this context, cyber-resilience offers an attractive complementary alternative to the existing cybersecurity paradigm. Cyber-resilience is defined in this article as the capacity to withstand, recover from and […] Read more

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Nouvelle publication: “From online to offline sexual offending: Episodes and obstacles”

F. Fortin, S. Paquette, and B. Dupont (2018), From online to offline sexual offending: Episodes and obstacles, Aggression and Violent Behavior, 39, 33-41. Abstract: Script theory explains how different types of crime may be committed in a particular sequence. While researchers have traditionally been interested in crimes against property and crimes against persons, this study analyzes a new […] Read more

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Darkode: Recruitment patterns and transactional features of “the most dangerous cybercrime forum in the world”

This article explores the social and market dynamics of Darkode, an invitation-only cybercrime forum that was dismantled by the FBI in July 2015 and was described by a U.S. Attorney as “the most sophisticated English-speaking forum for criminal computer hackers in the world”. Based on a leaked database of 4788 discussion threads, we examine the selection […] Read more

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New publication: "La gouvernance polycentrique du cybercrime: Les réseaux fragmentés de la coopération internationale"

B. Dupont, (2016), La gouvernance polycentrique du cybercrime: Les réseaux fragmentés de la coopération internationale, Cultures et Conflits, (102), 95-120. Abstract: One of the main features of digital crime is its transnational character, which seems to pose a major challenge to the harmonization and coordination of police resources, which are by definition local. However, an empirical analysis of the […] Read more

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La gouvernance polycentrique du cybercrime: Les réseaux fragmentés de la coopération internationale

One of the main features of digital crime is its transnational character, which seems to pose a major challenge to the harmonization and coordination of police resources, which are by definition local. However, an empirical analysis of the international governance of cybercrime provides an alternative reading. This article uses a social network analysis (SNA) approach […] Read more