DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

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"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." —Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets ...

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"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." —Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security—sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?
 
In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and often supersmart new breed of criminal: the hacker.
 
Glenny has traveled and trawled the world. By exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website DarkMarket he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe, England, or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players—the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims—and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history.
 
The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It’s a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.

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You might not have been a direct victim of cybercrime, but that doesn't mean that you are not paying the price digital misdeeds. Misha Glenny's DarkMarket totes up the high cost that we all share for these ever-morphing shenanigans, but mercifully also explains what governments and even private individuals can do to force the culprits to log out permanently. To write the book, this former BBC correspondent interviewed computer experts, members of military intelligence communities, police, politicians, lawyers, real-life hackers, and their victims. Prime time investigative journalism about a topic that touches us all.

Publishers Weekly
Investigative reporter Glenny (McMafia) takes readers into the seedy underworld of cybercrime, where nothing is as it seems and whose inhabitants are best known to peers and law enforcement agencies by their aliases: Matrix001, Iceman, Dron, Cha0, JiLsi, and Lord Cyric. With global roots that can be traced to Turkey, Sri Lanka, England, and the Ukraine, among other countries, digital lawlessness—perpetrated by an ever-evolving, often-invisible new breed of criminal—costs governments and businesses billions every year. But don't go looking for advice on how to protect yourself here. Rather, taking its name from the online forum for cyber criminals that was shut down in 2008 after an FBI agent infiltrated it using an alias, the book explores the rise of three fundamental threats facing computer users in the digital era: cybercrime, cyber industrial espionage, and cyber warfare. Glenny accomplishes the herculean task of converting cryptic and tangled information into short, gripping chapters that often read like a high-tech thriller (complete with a surprise ending). But the alternate universe he uncovers via 200 hours of interviews with the world's military and intelligence communities, police, politicians, lawyers, and the hackers themselves reveals a frightening, all-too-real network of geeky thieves possessing both superiority complexes and inferior consciences. (Oct.)
Kirkus Reviews
A complex, eye-opening account of cybercrime, one of the world's fastest growing sectors of criminal activity. Former BBC Central Europe correspondent Glenny (McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal World, 2008, etc.) draws on interviews, court records and website archives to craft this chronicle of a new and invisible form of crime made possible by the Internet. Unlike ordinary criminals, identity thieves, credit-card fraudsters and other cyber criminals engage in activities that are virtual, transnational and so technical in nature that they are difficult to prove in court. By 2004, with most countries and companies taking a haphazard approach to network security, sophisticated criminals were stealing millions from institutions worldwide. Glenny's main focus is DarkMarket, which became the world's top English-language cybercrime site, a digital "supermarket" that sold stolen identities and credit-card data that cost the banking industry tens of millions. Looking like any other message board, the site became the place where manufacturers of skimming machines (devices to read card data) could find a market, and where holders of credit-card databases could recruit people to extract cash from ATMs. Founded in 2005 by Renukanth Subramaniam, a Sri Lankan-born British citizen, the underground Internet forum was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated the group like a "cyber Donnie Brasco." Disguised as hacker "Master Splynter," the agent was so successful that he wound up running the server that hosted DarkMarket from his offices in the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance in Pittsburgh. With a wealth of detail that occasionally slows the narrative, Glenny describes the global activities of hackers, cops, lawyers, thieves and others, all of whom try to maximize their effectiveness in a virtual world where anything goes. The subtitle of the book is misleading; there is little in the book about "you" the reader, except as an object to be bilked by online hoodlums. Since 2008, writes the author, cybercrime has gone deeper underground. Scary reading.
Library Journal
A former BBC Central Europe correspondent whose many books include Overseas Press Club Award winner The Fall of Yugoslavia, Glenny explores the escalating phenomenon of cybercrime. He spoke not only to police, lawyers, and victims but to the hackers themselves and, refreshingly, offers some solutions. Read with Joel Brenner's America the Vulnerable, previewed above; with a 60,000-copy first printing and five-city tour.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780307592934
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 10/4/2011
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 631,111
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.40 (d)

Meet the Author

Misha Glenny is a former BBC Central Europe correspondent. He is the author of McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld; The Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy; The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War (winner of the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs); and The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and The Great Powers, 1804–1999. He is a former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He lives in London.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 5, 2012

    Very informative about just how vulnerable we are to theft due to the internet.

    Misha Glenny has done extensive research which includes interviews with prisoners in America AND foreign countries. This book IS FACTUAL and as suspenseful as a novel. The reader will be amazed with this author's information.

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