Characterising Cybercriminals: A Review
It provides an updated overview for researchers and practitioners in cybersecurity, but is incremental as it builds on earlier reviews.
This review synthesizes research on the characteristics and motivations of cybercriminals, focusing on studies from 2012 onward to update prior reviews, and includes a limited quality assessment of the included studies.
This review provides an overview of current research on the known characteristics and motivations of offenders engaging in cyber-dependent crimes. Due to the shifting dynamics of cybercriminal behaviour, and the availability of prior reviews in 2013, this review focuses on original research conducted from 2012 onwards, although some older studies that were not included in prior reviews are also considered. As a basis for interpretation of results, a limited quality assessment was also carried out on included studies through examination of key indicators.