Rational Choice on a Hacker Forum: The Effect of Risk and Reward Cues on Target Selection for Account Hijacking
Rational Choice on a Hacker Forum: The Effect of Risk and Reward Cues on Target Selection for Account Hijacking
Danielle Stibbe Stijn Ruiter Wouter Steenbeek Asier Moneva a Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam, The Netherlandsb Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlandsc The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, The NetherlandsDanielle Stibbe, MSc, is a PhD candidate at the NSCR and the Faculty of Social Sciences at Utrecht University. Her research interests include criminological theory testing, cybercriminal decision making, online automated data collection, and quantitative methods. LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-stibbeStijn Ruiter, PhD., is senior researcher and program leader of the What Works in Policing research program at the Netherlands Institute for the Study in Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). He is also the program leader of the Evidence-Based Policing research group and Professor of Evidence-Based Policing at the Department of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His main research interests include evidence-based policing, spatiotemporal crime patterns, and cybercrime.Wouter Steenbeek, PhD, is senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR). Most of his work is on the ‘geography of crime’: describing spatial and temporal variations in crime and explaining these variations as a function of the characteristics of places and how offenders, targets and guardians use their spatial environment over daily and weekly time cycles.Asier Moneva, PhD, is a researcher in the human factor of cybercrime at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) and the Centre of Expertise Cyber Security of The Hague University of Applied Sciences. His interests include cybercrime, crime prevention, quantitative research methods, and open science.