Chapter 10
The Global Cybercrime Ecosystem
and Cybercriminal Investigation
10.1 Understanding the context
The challenge of estimating the size of
the cybercriminal ecosystem
The process of actually implementing effective measures in the ght against
cybercriminality needs to be based, on one hand, on knowledge of the key
players and their motivations and, on the other, on an understanding of their
means of operation. This requires understanding their strategic vision, their
operational methods, their organisation, their internal structure, their recruit-
ment of agents, their processes, their business model, their prot laundering
methods, and so on.
It is difcult to provide categorical responses to many of these questions
because it is in the ...