Cybercrime Victims and Costs

This module explores the impact of cybercrime, focusing on the victims and the associated costs. It covers the range of potential victims—from individuals to large corporations—and examines the direct and indirect financial, operational, and reputational costs incurred by cybercrime incidents.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/43819299

Vu, Anh V., Jack Hughes, Ildiko Pete, Ben Collier, Yi Ting Chua, Ilia Shumailov, and Alice Hutchings. “Turning Up the Dial: The Evolution of a Cybercrime Market Through Set-up, Stable, and Covid-19 Eras.” In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, 551–66. Virtual Event USA: ACM, 2020.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423636

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Anderson, Ross, Chris Barton, Rainer Böhme, Richard Clayton, Carlos Gañán, Tom Grasso, Michael Levi, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek. “Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime.” Boston, 2019.

https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/05/WEIS_2019_paper_25.pdf

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De Kimpe, Lies, Koen Ponnet, Michel Walrave, Thom Snaphaan, Lieven Pauwels, and Wim Hardyns. “Help, I Need Somebody: Examining the Antecedents of Social Support Seeking among Cybercrime Victims.” Computers in Human Behavior 108 (2020): 106310.

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