2024-08-16
17 分钟We talk with Unit 221B’s Allison Nixon about young cybercriminals, radicalization, and the search for self in the virtual world.
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Before I started covering cybersecurity, I spent years reporting on one of the marquee stories of the terrorism, and I eventually became a bit of an expert in this very niche thing, the way young men radicalize.
I even wrote a book about it, has been asking why terrorism runs in families.
Young Moroccans who have traveled to Syria to join ISIS.
They say their client was being fed a steady diet of far right content.
Since then, I've turned my attention away from terrorism and towards cyber.
And as Yogi Berra might say it, it seems like deja vu all over again.
Many of these cyber criminals are young.
Kids, possibly unable to a group of teenagers hacking casinos.
Kids who aren't old enough to drink are pulling off epic hacks, and more often than not, they move from the world of online gaming to online crime.
Like the 15 year old who installed.
A back door in us military servers.
Or the gang of teenagers who swindled crypto investor Michael Turpin out of $24 million worth of crypto.
A lot of these online gangs are so reminiscent of old school street gangs, it's really uncanny.
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And today we're talking to cybercrime researcher Alison Nixon about the surprising parallels between today's online criminals and those young people I used to report on in the.
Real world, when you look at people that do engage in the most extreme acts, if you look at their history, you can see this pattern of escalation and escalation and escalation until it gets so extreme that they've done something they can't take back.
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