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Best Cybercrime books
8 books in our catalog cover Cybercrime, ranked by rating. Each entry is an opinionated review with who the book is for and who should skip it.
01 · 2022
Tracers in the Dark
The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Andy Greenberg's investigative narrative of how Bitcoin's allegedly-anonymous public ledger became, in the hands of researchers and federal investigators, the most powerful OSINT tool of the last decade.
Beginner5/5Andy Greenberg02 · 2017
American Kingpin
The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
A propulsive account of how Ross Ulbricht built the Silk Road dark-web drug empire as Dread Pirate Roberts, and how a handful of investigators across rival agencies finally unmasked him.
Beginner5/5Nick Bilton03 · 2011
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Kevin Poulsen's reconstruction of Max Butler's career — from white-hat consultant to running CardersMarket, the carding forum that consolidated the early-2000s underground — and the FBI investigation that finally took him down.
Beginner5/5Kevin Poulsen04 · 2022
Cyberattaques
Les dessous d'une menace mondiale
A clear, journalistic decoding of the cyberattack ecosystem — ransomware gangs, state actors, and the economics and geopolitics behind the headlines — by one of France's best-known cyber experts.
Beginner4/5Gérôme Billois, Nicolas Cougot05 · 2022
The Ransomware Hunting Team
A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
Investigative journalism on the volunteers who quietly cracked ransomware to free victims for free, while the FBI mostly watched. A people-first look at the early ransomware economy.
Beginner4/5Renee Dudley, Daniel Golden06 · 2014
Spam Nation
The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime — from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door
Brian Krebs's investigative deep-dive into the Russian-speaking pharma-spam economy of the late 2000s — the affiliate networks, the rivalries, and the people who ran them.
Beginner4/5Brian Krebs07 · 2023
Cybercriminalité
Comprendre, prévenir, réagir
Solange Ghernaouti's structured treatment of cybercrime — how it works, how to prevent it, how to respond — spanning technical, legal and organisational angles.
Intermediate3/5Solange Ghernaouti08 · 2010
Cybercriminalité
Droit pénal appliqué
A practitioner's treatment of cybercrime law — offences, procedure, and the application of criminal law to digital crime — by a French magistrate specialised in the field.
Intermediate3/5Myriam Quéméner, Yves Charpenel