{"id":7489,"date":"2024-04-23T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2024-07-16T05:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T05:15:50","slug":"the-mind-games-of-cybercrime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/the-mind-games-of-cybercrime\/","title":{"rendered":"The mind games of cybercrime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercrime is often more than just a demonstration of hacking skills.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker could be motivated by money, but equally by nationalism, a search for notoriety or revenge. The victim may be random and innocent, but he\/she could have been singled out because of an emotional weak spot. Following the crime, other human emotions, such as guilt or shame, may prevent the attack from being disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>So when addressing cybercrime, we need to focus as much on psychology as on technology.<\/p>\n<p>As internet-enabled fraud reaches ever more alarming proportions, in <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/132299955\/the-mind-games-of-cybercrime\/\">the latest <em>New Money Review<\/em> podcast<\/a> I interview Sarah Armstrong-Smith, author of a new book called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.koganpage.com\/risk-compliance\/understand-the-cyber-attacker-mindset-9781398614284\">Understand the Cyber Attacker Mindset<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7491\" src=\"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SAS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SAS.jpg 474w, https:\/\/newmoneyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SAS-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Armstrong-Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/132299955\/the-mind-games-of-cybercrime\/\">In the podcast<\/a>, we cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why pandemics and war are great news for fraudsters<\/li>\n<li>The amplification effect of social media<\/li>\n<li>How disinformation campaigns drive polarisation in society<\/li>\n<li>Why nation-state hackers are well-resourced and focused<\/li>\n<li>Why cybercrime and fraud are the invisible crime<\/li>\n<li>How police forces are scrambling to catch up<\/li>\n<li>Pig-butchering and blaming the victims of fraud<\/li>\n<li>Seeing frauds as human-to-human relationships<\/li>\n<li>Bolstering our defences as organisations and individuals<\/li>\n<li>The need for transparency about cyberattacks<\/li>\n<li>Why sanctions are most effective at the individual level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Cover photo by Laili Sadr<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In each thirty-minute episode, the New Money Review podcast brings you the best minds from the world of money. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From economics to payments, financial markets, technology, law, digital assets, crime and fraud, you&#8217;ll find an episode that interests you. <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/newmoneyreview\/\">Listen in<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybercrime is often more than just a demonstration of hacking skills. 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