Understanding cybercrime is no longer limited to cybersecurity professionals. In a connected world, it concerns everyone.
From online fraud and identity theft to ransomware, data breaches, cyber espionage, and attacks on critical infrastructure, cybercrime has become one of the defining challenges of the digital age. Cybercrime and Beyond offers a structured and comprehensive understanding of this complex field, connecting technology with crime, law, investigation, society, and human behaviour.
Written by V. Basil Hans and Rashmi Shenoy, the book begins with the foundations of cybercrime and examines how digital crime has evolved alongside technological progress. It explores major types of cybercrimes, including hacking, phishing, malware, ransomware, identity theft, cyberstalking, online fraud, data breaches, corporate espionage, cyberterrorism, and cyberwarfare.
The book also examines the people and groups operating within the cybercrime ecosystem, from individual hackers and organized cybercriminal networks to insider threats, hacktivists, and state-sponsored actors.
What Readers Will Gain
- A clear understanding of cybercrime and its evolution
- Knowledge of major cyber threats and online criminal activities
- Insight into hackers, organized cybercrime groups, and insider threats
- Understanding of common cyberattack techniques and tools
- An introduction to digital forensics and electronic evidence
- Knowledge of cyber law and legal frameworks
With its multidisciplinary approach, Cybercrime and Beyond is a useful resource for students, researchers, law students, cybersecurity learners, criminology students, legal professionals, law enforcement personnel, educators, and anyone interested in understanding crime in the digital world.
As technology continues to reshape society, understanding the risks that accompany it becomes increasingly important. Cybercrime and Beyond provides the knowledge needed to examine cybercrime not merely as a technical problem, but as a growing legal, social, economic, and security challenge.
A valuable reference for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of cybercrime, cybersecurity, digital forensics, and cyber law in the modern digital age.
