We’re pleased to announce keynote speaker Professor Rutger Leukfeldt will be presenting at the AIC 2025 Conference, which will take place in Canberra on 11-12 March 2025.
Professor Leukfeldt will be speaking on Examining the pathways into cybercrime and online interventions.
Abstract
What are pathways into cybercrime and how does someone become involved in a cybercriminal network? The first part of this presentation will be based on interviews with 25 criminal hackers about their online and offline pathways into cybercrime, co-offending and desistence. Preliminary results show that the first (baby) steps in pathways into cybercrime include gaming, Google and YouTube. In the second part of this presentation, two online interventions will be discussed. The first intervention uses Google to deter persons looking for cybercriminal tools to carry out DDoS-attacks and the second one uses Instagram to inform potential money mules.
Further information and tickets can be obtained at our event page.
Biography
Rutger Leukfeldt holds the special chair of Governing Cybercrime at Leiden University. The chair is established and managed by the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). At NSCR, Rutger is a senior researcher and he is also director of the Centre of Expertise Cybersecurity at the Hague University of Applied Sciences. Rutger's education and research focuses on the human factor in cybercrime. Who are the perpetrators, what are their crime scripts? What are risk profiles of victims? How can we tackle cybercrime? Rutger has more than 130 cybercrime publications to his name (including more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, 7 books and numerous professional publications and reports). Rutger is chair of the Cybercrime Working Group of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) and one of the founders of the annual Human Factors in Cybercrime Conference.