Presented at
BSidesLV 2023,
Aug. 9, 2023, 5 p.m.
(Unknown duration)
Up to this point in time, the primary law enforcement strategy used to fight cybercrime has been the "hammer". Given a core function of policing has been to arrest criminals, it is no surprise that offenders involved in digital crimes like hacking, online fraud and malware have also faced prosecution. Alongside arrests, has been the takedown of cybercriminal infrastructure, such as marketplaces or botnets. This has been carried out by law enforcement, with industry also playing a role. But questions have been raised about the long-term impact of such operations, and whether new players or infrastructure simply emerge with the cybercrime threat continuing unabated, or even growing.
This talk moves beyond the law enforcement hammer, and examines whether there are softer approaches which might also be used to reduce the threat of cybercrime. In particular, it focusses on the underlying economics of cybercrime and the levers which could be pulled to damage the efficiency of cybercriminal markets and disrupt illegal operations. In short, can law enforcement, and their partners in industry, play games with cybercriminals?
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Jonathan Lusthaus
Jonathan Lusthaus is Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. Jonathan's research focuses on the "human" side of profit-driven cybercrime: who cybercriminals are and how they are organised. He is a regular speaker at major conferences, such as Black Hat, Enigma and the International Conference on Cyber Security. Jonathan has also written widely across academic, policy and media publications, including for the European Journal of Criminology, the Council on Foreign Relations and The New York Times. He is the author of Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime published by Harvard University Press. Fieldwork for this study took place over a 7-year period, involved travel to cybercrime hotspots around the globe, and included almost 250 interviews with law enforcement, the private sector, and former cybercriminals. He also publishes the Industry of Anonymity newsletter, looking at the latest updates in cybercrime research and news.
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