In this show we talk with Dr. Rutger Leukfeldt, senior researcher and the cybercrime cluster coordinator at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and the director of the Cybersecurity & SMEs Research Center of the Hague University of Applied Sciences. Dr. Leukfeldt shares about organized crime groups online, their structures and how they operate and the importance of offline connections. Social opportunities structures are raised as an important instrument in the creation of these connections. We also talk about crime facilitators within organisations that are used by criminal groups to commit crime, becoming the inside threat that allows successful but low tech cybercrime. Other facilitators involved are the money mules that allow for the 'cashing out' and laundering of the proceeds of crime.
Find out more about Dr Leukfedlt:
https://www.nscr.nl/en/author/rutger/
https://www.cybercrimeworkingroup.com/rutger-leukfeldt
Publication mentioned in the Podcast:
A typology of cybercriminal networks: from low-tech all-rounders to high-tech specialists
Leukfeldt, E.R., Kleemans, E.R. & Stol, W.P. Crime Law Soc Change (2017) 67: 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-016-9662-2
News article:
Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur and Investor Michael Terpin Sues “Too Big to Care” AT&T for Permitting $23.8 Million Theft in “SIM Swap” Scam by Authorized Agent
More Background for this discussion:
Criminal networks in a digitised world: on the nexus of borderless opportunities and local embeddedness
Leukfeldt, E.R., Kleemans, E.R., Kruisbergen, E.W. et al. Trends Organ Crim (2019) 22: 324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-019-09366-7
Book
The Human Factor of Cybercrime
by Rutger Leukfeldt, Thomas J. Holt
https://www.crcpress.com/The-Human-Factor-of-Cybercrime/Leukfeldt-Holt/p/book/9781138624696