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Contents Executive Summary 2 1 Cybercrime: definition and facts 10 1.1 Definition 10 1.2 Sources of knowledge of cybercrime 12 1.3 Credit card fraud trends 16 1.4 Identity theft trends 20 1.5 Global distribution of cybercrime 28 2 Digital ecosystem 37 2.1 The cybercrime value chain 39 2.1.1 Mapping the cybercrime value chain 42 2.1.1.1 Detecting vulnerabilities 44 2.1.1.2 Infection and distribution 46 2.1.1.3 Exploitation 48 2.1.2 Linkages between cybercriminals 49 2.1.3 Governance 52 2.1.4 Upgrading 54 2.2 Capabilities and specialisation 58 2.2.1 Capabilities and specialisation for data harvesting 60 2.2.2 Capabilities and specialisation in the exploitation of information 69 Page 8
2.3 Cybercrime business models 73 2.3.1 Offline business models 74 2.3.2 Hybrid business models 75 2.3.3 Internet-based business models 76 3 Conclusions and recommendations 80 3.1 The future trends for cybercrime 80 3.1.1 The international level 82 3.1.2 The national level 83 3.1.3 The individual/institutional level 86 3.2 Recommendations 87 Appendix 92 Acknowledgements 97 Page 9
Page 1 and 2: Research report: July 2009 Crime on
Page 3 and 4: ‘official’ statistics exist yet
Page 5 and 6: Dynamic Capabilities The second com
Page 7: economics (finance, micro-, macro-)
Page 11 and 12: we focus on financial cybercrime. O
Page 13 and 14: measure all other statistical outpu
Page 15 and 16: fraud. Their methodology is still b
Page 17 and 18: opportunity for online theft of cre
Page 19 and 20: However, the recent increase in fra
Page 21 and 22: penalties for those who make fraudu
Page 23 and 24: Source: Elaborated from CIFAS onlin
Page 25 and 26: The rise of online and telephone ba
Page 27 and 28: ecruitment marketplace for cybercri
Page 29 and 30: Figure 6: Origin and destination of
Page 31 and 32: corporate blackmail, spam attacks a
Page 33 and 34: Nigerian criminal gangs in North Am
Page 35 and 36: the fastest growing segments. Howev
Page 37 and 38: 2 Digital ecosystem Innovation stud
Page 39 and 40: A digital business ecosystem is one
Page 41 and 42: actors, which are increasingly dist
Page 43 and 44: Figure 8: The cybercrime value chai
Page 45 and 46: tool is used by security and networ
Page 47 and 48: writers do not necessarily know how
Page 49 and 50: conceal this. Third, the device con
Page 51 and 52: Fraud on fraudster The most recent
Page 53 and 54: and facilitated by an explosion in
Page 55 and 56: The Storm botnet case study: the su
Page 57 and 58: accelerating on a monthly basis. Wi
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improvement and the introduction of
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that employees are more concerned a
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origin or signature or a presence o
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few simple words and a web link, wh
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web 2.0 sites (such as, social netw
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Source: John Leyden, “Trojan traw
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Cybercriminals find e-gold a conven
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ecosystem at various levels, creati
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expertise they need to perpetrate o
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are often offered for bulk purchase
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Crimeware-as-a-Service (CaaS): Para
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no dominant force. Unlike tradition
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is taken, priority is understandabl
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particularly good one, since consta
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outreach needs to be evaluated to e
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some of these firms may have adopte
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esilience must now surely be of con
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7) Click fraud: also called pay-per
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20) Pharming: is a scamming practic
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Acknowledgements Numerous people as
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