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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Global Crime

ISSN

1744-0572

e-ISSN

1744-0580

Svazek periodika

24

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

122-144

Kód UT WoS článku

000986086600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85159136193