DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

“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.

Table of Contents

BOOK ONE
Part I
1 An Inspector Calls
2 Miranda Speaks of a Brave New World
3 Mr Hyde of Lagos
Part II
4 The Odessa Files
5 CarderPlanet
6 A Family Affair
7 Boa Constricted
8 Script Rewrite
Part III
9 Tiger, Tiger
10 Game Theory
11 No Turning Back
12 A Passage to India
13 Shadowlands
Part IV
14 The Iceman Cometh
15 CardersMarket
16 DarkMarket
17 The Office
18 Suspicious Minds
19 Donnie Brasco
20 A Cunning Plan
Part V
21 The Dron Legacy
22 Dude You Fucked Up
23 Matrix Squared
24 The French Connection
25 The Invisible Man

BOOK TWO
Part I
26 Bilal in Pittsburgh
27 The Sublime Portal
Part II
28 Ciao, Cha0
29 Softly Softly
Part III
Orientation
30 The Dream World of Mert Orta?
31 A Servant of Two Masters
32 Turkish Delight
33 Return to Hades
34 Turkey Shoot
35 The Death of DarkMarket
Part IV
36 Double Jeopardy
37 Zorro Unmasked
38 Who Are You?
39 On the Road to Nowhere
40 Midday Express