The Things of Internet: Actor Network Theory and Cybercrime

About the guest:

https://www.eur.nl/people/wytske-van-der-wagen

Papers mentioned in this episode:

Wytske van der Wagen, The Significance of ‘Things’ in Cybercrime: How to Apply Actor-network Theory in (Cyber)criminological Research and Why it Matters, Journal of Extreme Anthropology, Volume 3 Number 1, 2019

Assistant Professor at Erasmus University, Department of Criminology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.6895

Wytske van der Wagen, Wolter Pieters, From Cybercrime to Cyborg Crime: Botnets as Hybrid Criminal Actor-Networks, The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 55, Issue 3, May 2015, Pages 578–595,

https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azv009

van der Wagen, W., & Pieters, W. (2018). The hybrid victim: Re-conceptualizing high-tech cyber victimization through actor-network theory. European Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370818812016

Wytske van der Wagen, From cybercrime to cyborg crime

Authors Manuscript version:

https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/61493330/Chapter_1.pdf

Extract from:

van der Wagen, W. (2018). From cybercrime to cyborg crime: An exploration of high-tech cybercrime,

offenders and victims through the lens of Actor-Network Theory. [Groningen]: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/en/publications/from-cybercrime-to-cyborg-crime(f3a5c5e0-ff0f-4dad-ac6c-2bc91d96a1b4).html

Other:

The Samy Kamkar MySpace Worm

Greatest Moments in Hacking History: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace

5 minute Video from MotherBoard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtnuaHl378M

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That EternalBlue thing that became crimeware

The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World by Lily Hay Newman on Wired.com (03/07/2018)

https://www.wired.com/story/eternalblue-leaked-nsa-spy-tool-hacked-world/

WannaCry – Important lessons from the first NSA-powered ransomware cyberattack

By Pierluigi Paganini, May 16, 2017

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/59154/cyber-crime/wannacry-nsa-powered-ransomware-cyberattack.html

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The BredoLab Botnet

Bredolab: Jail for man who masterminded botnet of 30 million computers

by Graham Cluley, 23 MAY 2012

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/23/bredolab-jail-botnet/

Wikipedia on the BedoLab botnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredolab_botnet

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Sorry for the Pronunciation of Kubernētēs, I tried, but I am not sure than I managed more than a "foreign word" accent.

If all you have is a hammer, all you see is nails, but every tool's a hammer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43319933-every-tool-s-a-hammer