David Wall

Short Resume

David Wall, Ph.D., is a Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds. His research focuses on cybercrime, organised crime, policing and intellectual property crime. He has published a wide range of more than 50 articles and 12 books on these subjects. He has been a member of various governmental working groups, such as the Ministerial Working Group on Horizon Planning 2020-2025, the Home Office Cybercrime Working Group, the HMIC Digital Crime and Policing working group, and international working parties which include the UNODC cybercrime expert group. He is currently conducting a range of interdisciplinary research into cybercrime and cybersecurity and organised crime online.

Title of the presentation

The Cybercrime Ecosystem: The Challenges of New Pathways Into Cybercrime

Abstract

Drawing upon longstanding research into cybercrime and drawing upon a case study of ransomware, this talk will explore the new challenges that are being presented to society, its legislature and law enforcement by the evolution of new pathways into cybercrime. New pathways that have arisen from a cybercrime 'business' ecosystem which has evolved to enable offenders to commit cybercrime. The first part will outline the new technological developments that have facilitated the ecosystem and the second part will describe the range of new skill sets that are now offered to offenders (for a fee). The third part will outline the implications of these new pathways for preventing, policing, investigation and prosecuting cybercrime.

Keywords

cybercrime, ecosystem, challenges, case study, offenders