Emerging digital harms

Research output

Research output per year 2019 2019 2020 2021 2025

• 8 Conference contribution
• 5 Paper
• 4 Article
• 2 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
• 1 More
  • 1 Other report

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Assessing the aftermath: The effects of a global takedown against DDoS-for-hire services

  Vu, A., Collier, B., Thomas, D., Kristoff, J., Clayton, R. & Hutchings, A., 7 Feb 2025, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Private Sector 100%
  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Median 100%
  • Law 100%
  • Chat 100%
• 2024

  Peer(ing) pressure: Achieving social action at scale in the Internet infrastructure

  Collier, B. & Clayton, R., 10 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) Workshop on the Economics of Information Security Proceedings. Oxford University Press, (Journal of Cybersecurity ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Internet Infrastructure 100%
  • Cybercrime 100%
  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Spoofing 50%
  • Developing Economy 50%

• Getting Bored of Cyberwar: Exploring the Role of Low-level Cybercrime Actors in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

  Vu, A., Thomas, D., Collier, B., Hutchings, A., Clayton, R. & Anderson, R., 23 Jan 2024, (Accepted/In press).

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Russia-Ukraine Conflict 100%
  • Online Discussion 50%
• 2023

  Cybercrime: A social ecology

  Collier, B. & Hutchings, A., 21 Sept 2023, The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Liebling, A., Maruna, S. & McAra, L. (eds.). 7th ed. Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Criminology 100%
  • Social Ecology 100%
• 2022

  A “sophisticated attack”? Innovation, technical sophistication, and creativity in the cybercrime ecosystem

  Collier, B. & Clayton, R., 27 May 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Criminal Justice System 100%
  • Technical Innovation 100%
  • Cybercrime 100%
  • Security Policy 50%
  • Framing 50%
• 2021

  Cybercrime is (often) boring: Infrastructure and alienation in a deviant subculture

  Collier, B., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A. & Thomas, D., Sept 2021, In: The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society (BJC). 61, 5, p. 1407–1423 azab026.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Subcultures 100%
  • Alienation 100%
  • Exceptions 25%
  • Empirical data 25%
  • Division of Labour 25%

• Exploring masculinities and perceptions of gender in online cybercrime subcultures

  Bada, M., Chua, Y. T., Collier, B. & Pete, I., 8 Aug 2021, Cybercrime in Context: The human factor in victimization, offending, and policing. Weulen Kranenbarg, M. & Leukfeldt, R. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer, p. 237-257 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • Subcultures 100%
  • Data Science 50%
  • Commodification 50%
  • Entry Level 50%
  • Intimate Partner 50%

• Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: Towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing

  Horgan, S., Collier, B., Jones, R. & Shepherd, L., 3 Aug 2021, In: Journal of Criminal Psychology. 11, 3, p. 222-239

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Routine Activity Theory 100%

• Follow the money: The relationship between currency exchange and illicit behaviour in an underground forum

  Siu, G. A., Collier, B. & Hutchings, A., 2 Jul 2021, (Accepted/In press). 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Supply Chain Management 100%
  • Liberty 100%
  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • Currency Market 100%
  • Cryptocurrency 100%

• Silicon den: Cybercrime is entrepreneurship

  Anderson, R., Clayton, R., Böhme, R. & Collier, B., 14 Jun 2021. 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Entrepreneurship 100%
  • Market Entry 50%

• Understanding digital drug markets through the geography of postal drug deliveries in Scotland

  Matthews, B., Collier, B., McVie, S. & Dibben, C., 4 Mar 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Criminology. 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Descriptive Statistics 100%
  • Bayesian 100%
  • Postal Services 100%
  • Drug Delivery 100%
  • Rural Areas 100%

• Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services

  Collier, B., Thomas, D. R., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A. & Chua, Y. T., 10 Feb 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Policing and Society.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Time Series 100%
  • Longitudinal Analysis 100%
  • Market Structure 100%
  • Sentencing 100%
  • Communication Channel 100%
• 2020

  Turning up the dial: The evolution of a cybercrime market through set-up, stable, and Covid-19 eras

  Vu, A., Hughes, J., Pete, I., Collier, B., Chua, Y. T., Shumailov, I. & Hutchings, A., 27 Oct 2020, IMC '20: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 551–566 16 p. (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Cybercrime 100%
  • Arbitration 100%
  • Bitcoin 100%
  • Cold Start Problem 50%
  • Underground Market 50%

• A tight scrape: methodological approaches to cybercrime research data collection in adversarial environments

  Turk, K., Pastrana, S. & Collier, B., 22 Oct 2020, 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 10 p. (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops; vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Gathering Data 100%
  • Cybercrime 100%
  • Scientific Methods 100%
  • Online Service 100%

• Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies

  Collier, B., Clayton, R., Hutchings, A. & Thomas, D., 10 Jun 2020, (E-pub ahead of print). 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Cultural Factor 100%
  • Sociological Research 100%
  • Burnout 100%
  • Cybercrime 100%
  • Botnets 40%

• Postal Delivery of Illegal Consignments into Scotland: Dataset Description

  Matthews, B., McVie, S., Dibben, C. & Collier, B., 1 Jun 2020, Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research .

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

  • Obstetric Delivery 100%
  • Drug 66%
  • Procedures 33%
  • Processing 33%
  • Time 33%
• 2019

  Fighting the “blackheart airports”: Internal policing in the Chinese censorship circumvention ecosystem

  Chua, Y. T. & Collier, B., 1 Nov 2019, 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 9 p. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  • Firewall 100%
  • Scammer 100%
  • Chat 50%
  • Information Security 50%
  • Cybercrime 50%

• From playing games to committing crimes: A multi-technique approach to predicting key actors on an online gaming forum

  Hughes, J., Collier, B. & Hutchings, A., 1 Nov 2019, 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 12 p. (APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime)).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  • Natural Language Processing 100%
  • High Proportion 100%
  • Game Playing 100%
  • Criminal Activity 100%
  • Committing Crime 100%

• Booting the booters: Evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for denial-of-service attacks

  Collier, B., Thomas, D., Clayton, R. & Hutchings, A., 31 Oct 2019, IMC '19: Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 50-64 (Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Denial-of-Service 100%
  • Denial-of-Service Attack 100%
  • Police 100%
  • Time Series 100%
  • Time Series Data 50%

• Inside out: Characterising cybercrime committed inside and outside the workplace

  Hutchings, A. & Collier, B., 1 Jun 2019, 2019 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 481-490 (IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  Open Access

  • Data Protection 100%
  • Police 50%