This week’s topics
Evaluation and Impact of Global Cybercrime
- Ransomware syndicates and extortion models
- Advanced persistent threats (APTs) against critical infrastructure
- Social engineering at scale
- Cross-border jurisdictional challenges
- 2025 Threat Intelligence Index: Dark Web, AI, & Ransomware Trends
- Defending Critical Infrastructure
- Social Engineering: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do
- Cybercrime as a Service
- TU Delft – Measuring Threats
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Critically evaluate the major categories of cybercrime.
Activity
Start with this week’s 5 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate the major categories of cybercrime.
Study materials
Videos
- 2025 Threat Intelligence Index: Dark Web, AI, & Ransomware Trends · YouTube · IBM Technology · 13 min · for registered students
- Defending Critical Infrastructure · YouTube · SANS Institute · 32 min · for registered students
- Social Engineering: What It Is, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do · YouTube · SANS Institute · 22 min · for registered students
- Cybercrime as a Service · YouTube · TU Delft · 4 min · for registered students
- TU Delft – Measuring Threats · YouTube · TU Delft · 6 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Security Engineering (3rd ed.), ch. 2: Who Is the Opponent? · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 17–61 · for registered students
- NCSC/NCA: Ransomware, extortion and the cyber crime ecosystem · PDF · NCSC, report; 29 pages · for registered students
- ENISA: Threat Landscape for Ransomware Attacks · PDF · Enisa, report; 38 pages · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
