On the Dynamics Behind Profit-driven Cybercrime from Contextual Factors to Perceived Group Structures, and the Workforce at the Periphery

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21230%2F23%3A00380653" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21230/23:00380653 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2023.2211521" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2023.2211521</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2023.2211521" target="_blank" >10.1080/17440572.2023.2211521</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the Dynamics Behind Profit-driven Cybercrime from Contextual Factors to Perceived Group Structures, and the Workforce at the Periphery
Original language description
Through an inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with experts, this study corroborates key findings on contextual and organisational dynamics behind profit-driven cybercrime. The findings pinpoint three contextual factors influencing individuals to participate in profit-driven cybercrime: lack of legal economic opportunities, lack of deterrents, and drifting means. The findings also highlight how experts perceive group structures of those behind profit-driven cybercrime: as organised, enterprise-like, loose networks, or communities. Experts' narratives, moreover, emphasise the presence of a workforce at the periphery of cybercrime groups. Such a workforce is not actively involved in developing criminal schemes, yet it helps their orchestration by achieving necessary tasks such as writing texts or developing software. The study results confirm key insights on crime participation related to both cyber and non-cybercrime literature while also raising new research avenues, including questions concerning to what extent those forming the peripheral workforce are willing to participate in cybercrime.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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