Private Sector, APA-Obs, CSA-Obs

A social anthropology of cybercrime: The digitization of India’s economic periphery

A social anthropology of cybercrime:

... The Republic of India is a useful case study for tracking the growth of cybercrime in the developing world. Most analyses of such crime focus on advanced, industrialized countries because that is where the largest and most sophisticated offences originate from. But threat fact...

Posted on 14 Apr 2020

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

CovidCrimeWatch

Cybercrime: Threats during the Covid-19 pandemic

Cybercrime

... As COVID-19 spreads quickly, so does the threat of cybercrime. Hackers are taking advantage of the current uncertainty to send out even more phishing messages than usual, with varying degrees of sophistication. The sector which is most crucial to containin...

Posted on 08 Apr 2020

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

Cyber-insecurities? A guide to the UN cybercrime debate

Cyber-insecurities?

... This brief focuses on cybercrime in an international context, exploring in particular why the United Nations is still trying to find its footing as an agenda-setting institution on countering cybercrime. One study in...

Posted on 04 Mar 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker

MMFU

In search of cyber-enabled disruption

In search of cyber-enabled disruption

...In search of cyber-enabled disruption - Insights from the Digital Dangers project...

Posted on 18 Feb 2019

Author(s): Simone Haysom

UN-TOC Watch

AI, cybercrime and the UN

...The UN should follow the secretary general’s lead on artificial intelligence and cybercrime. There is no doubt that artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday life. In the public sphere, the authorities are increasingly using facial-recognition technology to identify...

Posted on 24 Jul 2018

Author(s): Summer Walker

Global Initiative

Cybercrime and the Digital Economy in the GCC Countries

...by Joyce Hakmeh (International Security Department) A failure to tackle cybercrime would imperil strategic development plans intended to diversify GCC economies and reduce their reliance on the hydrocarbons sector.   Summary Cybercrime is an escalating threat to th...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

10 Biggest Cyber Crimes and Data Breaches to Date

...cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated at picking our virtual pockets. And most of us remain woefully unprepared. According to a 2016 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, organizations ran...

Posted on 28 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: GCSP Cyber Challenge

...The Global Initiative was honoured to participate in the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Atlantic Council 2017 “cyber 9/12 Student Challenge" as a judge on both days of the crisis simulation which requested the student teams to submit policy briefs and policy propositions to 'a group of EU policy makers' that show t...

Posted on 21 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Designing The Next Generation Cyber Security Operations Center

... to the users of the Internet, regardless if they are individual users or companies, is increasing in quantity and quality. The various drivers for this increase are many, but the the ease of being a cybercriminal, with an easy access to online tools and no need to travel to conduct this faceless crime, makes cybercrime almost risk-free and very profitable. On the cyber protection side, I have notic...

Posted on 18 Mar 2016

Author(s): Troels Oerting

Global Initiative

Cybercrime in West Africa: Poised for an Underground Market

...In some regions of the world, it is a fact that cybercriminal underground markets where criminals sell and/or buy products and services for committing cybercrime exist. But when the phrase “cybercriminal underground market” is uttered, Africa probab...

Posted on 01 Mar 2016