Cyber Syndicates: The AI Crime Economy and Infrastructure: What Exactly Constitutes a Criminal Organization when Substantial Portions of its ... Outlaws: AI and the New Crime Frontier) - Brossura

Revenant, Byte

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798161153871

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

The cybercriminal underground is no longer just a collection of hackers, malware crews, fraudsters, and ransomware gangs. It is becoming an economy—an interconnected system of services, infrastructure, financing, automation, marketplaces, and specialist labor increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.

Cyber Syndicates: The AI Crime Economy and Infrastructure takes readers inside that emerging system.

In this third volume of Digital Outlaws: AI and the New Crime Frontier, Byte Revenant moves beyond the malicious code itself to examine the organizations and economic machinery that make modern cybercrime scalable. The book follows the transformation of malware into a service business, ransomware into a distributed commercial ecosystem, botnets into flexible infrastructure, stolen data into inventory, cryptocurrency into both payment rail and investigative trail, and AI into a force multiplier across the underground economy.

The book explores Malware-as-a-Service 2.0, tokenized theft and laundering, autonomous botnet fleets, AI-assisted extortion, distributed phishing and fraud farms, illicit infrastructure supply chains, collaboration between human gangs and automated systems, geopolitical safe havens and state-linked activity, criminal specialization, and blockchain tracing. Real cases are separated from assessed developments and projected scenarios, while fictionalized composites are clearly identified.

Cyber Syndicates is not a manual for committing cybercrime. It is a map of the economy that supports it: who supplies the tools, who provides access, who moves the money, who maintains the infrastructure, how criminal groups coordinate, and where investigators and defenders may find leverage.

Written for intelligent general readers as well as cybersecurity professionals, executives, journalists, policy analysts, investigators, and students of organized crime, this book explains why the next stage of cybercrime may look less like a lone hacker at a keyboard and more like a global digital industry.

The malware is only the visible edge.

The real story is the system behind it.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798161153871
• Rilegatura: Tapa blanda
• Numero di pagine: 196
• Contatto del produttore: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.es/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo