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Best Cybercrime books
10 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 · 2026
Dissecting the Dark Web
Reverse Engineering the Tools of the Underground Economy
HUMAN Security's VP of Threat Intelligence tears down real malware-as-a-service offerings sold on dark web forums, chapter by chapter, from stealers and loaders to ransomware and living-off-the-land post-exploitation kits.
Advanced4/5Lindsay Kaye05 · 2024
Dark Wire
The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
Journalist Joseph Cox's account of Anom, the encrypted phone company secretly run by the FBI from 2018 to 2021, and of the global wave of arrests that followed Operation Trojan Shield.
Beginner4/5Joseph Cox06 · 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 Cougot07 · 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 Golden08 · 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 Krebs09 · 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 Ghernaouti10 · 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