Organised Cybercrime Groups and Their Illicit Online Activities
Organised Cybercrime Groups and Their Illicit Online Activities

Summary/Abstract: Our everyday lives and business transactions happen online, so too does criminal activity – more than one million people worldwide become victims of cybercrime every day. Online criminal activity ranges from selling stolen credit cards for as little as one euro, through identity-theft and child sexual abuse, to serious cyberattacks against institutions and infrastructure. Cybercrime has become a big profit-driven illegal and service-based industry. It has developed the Crime-as-a-Service business model, which provides a wide range of services such as rental botnets, denial-of-service attacks and malware development. The disadvantage of the technology development is that criminals may exploit and take advantage of modern technology for their own criminal acts. The structure of organised criminal groups is that they represent a flexible network formed by high-skilled, multi-faceted cybercriminals. They plan, organize and commit numerous cybercrimes and set up online criminal networks, which operate on a “stand alone” basis. The individual cybercriminals can be as organized, as well resourced, and as successful as many organizations. The present paper analyses the following: - Cybercriminals and cybercrime groups; - Online criminal communication and black markets; - Dos and DDoS attacks; - Illegal online gambling; - Online child sexual exploitation; - Online money laundering

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