Cybercrimeology1 Sep 2025

Follow the Honey: Experiments in Cybercriminal Decision-Making

Show Notes:

Daniëlle began her academic path in psychology, later moving into criminology through her interest in decision making and online behaviour.
Her PhD research at NSCR focuses on cybercriminal decision making, using honeypots and experiments in real online environments.
Early experiments tested how different rewards affected access attempts on fake accounts.
A major focus has been on the impact of Operation Cookie Monster (2023), which disrupted the Genesis Market. Danielle’s work examined how this law enforcement operation influenced behaviour and moderation practices on hacker forums.
She emphasizes the value of experiments in the field, which allow researchers to test criminological theories with live offender behaviour, while balancing strict ethical and legal safeguards.

About our guest:

Danielle Stibbe

NSCR Profile Page: https://nscr.nl/en/medewerker/danielle-stibbe-msc/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1fsHJEgAAAAJ&hl=en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-stibbe/?originalSubdomain=nl

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Onaolapo, J., Mariconti, E., & Stringhini, G. (2016). What happens after you are pwnd: Understanding the use of leaked webmail credentials in the wild. Proceedings of the 2016 Internet Measurement Conference. https://doi.org/10.1145/2987443.2987475
Europol (2023). Operation Cookie Monster: Genesis Market taken down in coordinated international action.https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/operation-cookie-monster-genesis-market-taken-down-in-coordinated-international-action
Oxford Handbook of Criminal Decision Making (2016). Eds. Bruinsma & Weisburd. Oxford University Press.

Other:

The open science framework https://osf.io

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