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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The future of underground banking is not cash or crypto. It is both.Stablecoins, self-custodied wallets, cross-chain bridges, OTC brokers, decentralized finance and professional money-laundering networks are converging into a new financial architecture capable of moving value across technologies, institutions and borders.In Chain-Hopping, Byte Revenant investigates how that architecture works.Why have stablecoins become so important to illicit finance What actually happens when value moves from one blockchain to another Why do bridges fragment investigative trails without making transactions invisible How do mixers differ from chain-hopping Where do offshore exchanges, unhosted wallets and DeFi fit into the system And how does digital value ultimately reconnect with cash, bank accounts and the real economy This book explains the answers without assuming a technical background.Readers will discover how professional money-laundering networks increasingly combine traditional underground banking with cryptocurrency infrastructure; why stablecoins can function as wholesale settlement assets between brokers; how ransomware proceeds enter broader laundering networks; and why blockchain analytics can often reconstruct complex financial movements while still struggling with the hardest question of all: who actually controls the wallet Chain-Hopping also examines the enforcement side of the contest. Public blockchains preserve financial evidence. Exchanges can connect addresses to customers. Stablecoin issuers may freeze assets. Cross-chain tracing is improving. Yet locating cryptocurrency does not automatically mean authorities can seize it, legally forfeit it or return it to victims.Drawing on current 2026 evidence from FATF, BIS, U.S. law enforcement and leading blockchain-intelligence research, Chain-Hopping explains a financial system evolving in real time.Inside: - Why criminal finance increasingly prefers digital dollars- How wallets, exchanges, bridges and custody really work- Why stablecoins changed underground settlement- How chain-hopping fragments transaction trails- Mixers, bridges and modern obfuscation- Offshore VASPs and Travel Rule gaps- Self-custody and the identity problem- OTC brokers and hybrid cash-crypto finance- Ransomware laundering infrastructure- The power and limits of blockchain analytics- Freezing, seizure, forfeiture and victim recovery- Digital hawala, multi-chain finance and automationThis is not a crypto investment guide.It is an investigation of the financial back office of modern crime-and the global race to understand it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Artificial intelligence is changing cybercrime-but not in the way the most dramatic headlines suggest.The real transformation is quieter, more practical, and already underway.Cybercriminals are using AI to research targets, write and modify code, interpret unfamiliar systems, analyze stolen data, manage infrastructure, support vulnerability exploitation, improve social engineering, and automate parts of post-compromise operations. Agentic systems are beginning to move beyond answering questions and toward executing multi-step workflows, correcting errors, invoking tools, and operating across multiple targets with less continuous human involvement.Machine-Speed Crime examines what happens when those capabilities mature.Rather than predicting a world of fully autonomous 'AI hackers,' Byte Revenant traces a more credible and potentially more disruptive transition: cybercrime with fewer human bottlenecks.The book investigates how AI changes the economics and tempo of criminal operations. Reconnaissance can become continuous. Initial access can become more personalized. Exploit-development cycles can compress. Malware and infrastructure can become more adaptive. Stolen information can be triaged at machine scale. Extortion can become a data-driven decision process. Hybrid disruption can combine technical attacks with synthetic media and information manipulation. Criminal teams may remain small while supervising increasingly large software-defined operations.At the same time, the attack itself may become harder to see.Future intrusions may rely less on obviously malicious files and more on stolen identities, legitimate cloud platforms, SaaS services, APIs, AI agents, administrative tools, and machine credentials. The challenge for defenders becomes not simply identifying malicious software, but distinguishing malicious intent from activity that technically resembles ordinary digital work.Grounded in state-of-the-art 2026 evidence, the book separates what is documented, what can reasonably be assessed, and what remains projected for the period approaching 2030-2032.Machine-Speed Crime is not a book about science-fiction cyberwar. It is a book about the industrialization of decision-making inside cybercrime.The machines do not need motives. They do not need to become criminals. They only need to make criminal operations faster, cheaper, more scalable, and more difficult to distinguish from legitimate activity.That transition has already begun.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What happens when the hacker stops doing every step personally-and starts delegating the work to AI The Rogue Algorithm: The Dawn of AI Crime investigates one of the most consequential shifts in modern cybercrime: the movement from AI-assisted criminals toward agentic systems capable of researching targets, using tools, analyzing data, writing and interpreting code, coordinating tasks, adapting to failure, and continuing operations with decreasing human supervision.This is not a book about a science-fiction superintelligence suddenly deciding to become a criminal. It is about something more immediate: human criminals acquiring software that can perform increasing amounts of cognitive labor for them.Drawing on developments through 2026, Byte Revenant examines how that transition is reshaping cybercrime from the inside out.The book explores the difference between chatbots and autonomous agents; the ways AI changes criminal scale, adaptability, expertise, and economics; documented early cases of AI-assisted and increasingly agentic cyber operations; multi-agent criminal workflows; AI-enabled influence operations; human error and the limits of autonomy; adaptive agents and automated attack chains; the effects on businesses, governments, healthcare, privacy, critical infrastructure, and ordinary citizens; ransomware-as-code, AI-for-hire markets, cryptocurrency payments, stablecoins, and laundering networks; and the emerging legal problems of intent, attribution, jurisdiction, evidence, and responsibility.A detailed fictional attack scenario shows how an autonomous operation could unfold without turning the book into an intrusion manual. A financial-flow diagram explains how money moves through an AI-assisted extortion ecosystem and where investigators can intervene.The final chapter turns to defense. AI-assisted security operations, autonomous vulnerability research, NIST's evolving AI Risk Management Framework, European regulation, U.S. policy, critical-infrastructure resilience, bounded autonomy, human oversight, and emerging international norms reveal that defenders are automating too.The Rogue Algorithm rejects both complacency and hype. Today's agents remain fallible and human-directed in important ways. But a technology does not need to replace the criminal to transform crime. It only needs to make difficult work cheaper, faster, more scalable, or easier to coordinate.Book 1 of the series Digital Outlaws: AI and the New Crime Frontier.For readers of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, organized crime, technology policy, law enforcement, digital risk, and the future of crime.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Cybercrime is not waiting for artificial general intelligence. The tools needed to change it already exist.Artificial intelligence can now help analyze software, search for vulnerabilities, generate and modify code, personalize deception, interpret stolen information, coordinate reconnaissance, and assist increasingly complex cyber operations.Individually, none of these capabilities creates an all-powerful machine hacker. Connected together, however, they begin to change the structure and economics of cybercrime.In Digital Outlaws: Tools and Tactics of AI-Driven Crime, Byte Revenant examines the machinery behind the emerging AI-enabled criminal ecosystem.The book explores AI-assisted malware development, algorithmic vulnerability discovery, autonomous malware, polymorphic and self-obfuscating code, adaptive command and control, deepfake phishing, agentic reconnaissance, criminal AI services, attacks against AI infrastructure, and the accelerating AI-versus-AI security contest.It also examines the transition from individual AI tools to coordinated agentic workflows in which specialized systems can divide tasks, share information, interpret failures, and operate under relatively small human supervisory teams.Drawing on documented research and reported developments through 2026, the book separates what has already been observed from what remains assessed or projected. Cases and technologies discussed include emerging runtime-AI malware, AI-assisted vulnerability research, criminal phishing services, cloud attacks, multi-agent security systems, automated code analysis, and the growing attack surface created by AI APIs, tool integrations, machine identities, and agent permissions.The concluding chapter brings these ideas together in a clearly identified fictional defensive simulation, following an AI-enabled incident from reconnaissance through breach, containment, and forensic reconstruction.Written for the intelligent general reader as well as cybersecurity professionals, executives, journalists, investigators, policymakers, and technology specialists, the book explains complex systems without sensationalism and without turning technical analysis into an attack manual.The central question is no longer whether criminals will use AI.They already do.The question is what happens when AI stops being merely another tool and becomes part of the operating structure of cybercrime.The hacker is no longer working alone.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The crime makes the money. The underground banker makes the money usable.Drug traffickers generate cash. Fraud networks drain accounts. Ransomware gangs receive cryptocurrency. Corrupt officials accumulate wealth they cannot safely explain. Yet every successful criminal enterprise eventually confronts the same problem: how to collect, move, convert, disguise, protect, and reuse its proceeds.Underground Bankers investigates the specialists who solve that problem.Byte Revenant follows the hidden financial infrastructure behind organized crime, from professional money-laundering networks and hawala-like settlement systems to cash couriers, trade-based laundering, shell companies, front businesses, money mules, professional gatekeepers, cryptocurrency brokers, stablecoins, financial intelligence units, and international asset recovery.Rather than treating cash, banking, trade, informal finance, and crypto as separate criminal worlds, the book shows how modern laundering networks combine them. Physical cash can become digital value. Cryptocurrency can become local currency. Commercial transactions can settle underground obligations. Legitimate companies can provide camouflage. Thousands of mule identities can become reusable financial infrastructure.At the center is Operation Destabilise, the major UK investigation that exposed Russian-speaking laundering networks connecting local criminal cash, cryptocurrency conversion, ransomware-linked value, sanctions evasion, Russian elites, and state-related financial activity. The case reveals a fundamental change in organized crime: laundering is becoming a professional service that can support many criminal customers at once.Written for the intelligent general reader and grounded in contemporary 2026 investigations, enforcement actions, FATF analysis, Treasury assessments, Europol, Eurojust, UNODC, and financial-intelligence reporting, Underground Bankers explains not how to commit financial crime, but how the criminal financial ecosystem works, why it persists, and where investigators are learning to attack it.Because crime has a back office.And somebody has to run it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A government portal disappears during a diplomatic crisis.A bank becomes unreachable.An airport website goes dark.A national broadcaster is knocked offline while political rumors spread across social media.Nothing may have been stolen. No database may have been altered. No physical infrastructure may have been destroyed.And yet the public suddenly feels that something larger is failing.In Availability Wars: DDoS, Hacktivism, and Hybrid Disruption Against Public Life, Byte Revenant examines how distributed denial-of-service attacks have evolved from digital nuisance into a tool of political signaling, hacktivist mobilization, propaganda, criminal commerce, and hybrid coercion.Part of The Coercion Stack Series, this deeply researched but accessible book explains how modern DDoS works without drowning the reader in unnecessary technical jargon, then follows the attack outward into the political and social systems surrounding it.Readers will discover how DDoS-for-hire markets make disruptive capability cheap, why governments and public portals are disproportionately attractive targets, how patriotic hacker networks and criminal infrastructure blur attribution, why banks and airports create anxiety when their public interfaces fail, how Telegram claims and screenshots transform brief outages into lasting propaganda, and why the psychological effect of downtime can exceed the actual technical damage.The book also examines the defensive side of the contest: distributed traffic absorption, application-layer mitigation, graceful degradation, minimum viable operations, crisis communications, alternative service channels, sector exercises, and the growing importance of resilience-by-design.Finally, Availability Wars explores the escalation problem. When does a DDoS campaign remain political nuisance activity, and when does it become one component of a wider hybrid effort involving information manipulation, espionage, criminal proxies, infrastructure sabotage, or geopolitical coercion Looking beyond 2026, Byte Revenant examines a future in which automation, AI-assisted messaging, criminal service markets, temporary hacktivist alliances, and increasingly precise political timing could make availability attacks faster to organize and easier to amplify-even as automated defenses become dramatically more capable.The server may recover in minutes.The political effect may last much longer.For readers interested in cybersecurity, cybercrime, critical infrastructure, national security, hacktivism, information warfare, geopolitical conflict, digital resilience, and the increasingly fragile boundary between online disruption and public life, Availability Wars provides a comprehensive guide to one of the least understood forms of modern coercion.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ransomware is no longer just a cyberattack. It is a market for coercing digital continuity.In Hostage Systems: Ransomware, Data Extortion, and the Price of Digital Continuity, Byte Revenant investigates how ransomware evolved from simple file-locking malware into a global extortion economy that targets hospitals, schools, cities, factories, companies, public services, cloud platforms, identities, backups, and data itself.This book explains why modern ransomware persists even after arrests, takedowns, sanctions, and law-enforcement disruptions. The reason is not only better malware. The reason is a modular criminal market: ransomware-as-a-service operators, affiliates, access brokers, infostealers, leak sites, negotiators, laundering services, and pressure tactics that transform institutional dependency into money.Hostage Systems shows why backups alone do not end the crisis, why stolen data changes the negotiation, why leak sites function as public coercive theater, why some sectors are especially vulnerable, and why the future of ransomware may involve data-only extortion, cloud coercion, identity hostage-taking, AI-assisted pressure, and hybrid geopolitical use.Written in a serious, cinematic, accessible nonfiction style, this book is designed for readers who want to understand ransomware as a social, economic, institutional, and strategic problem - not merely a technical nuisance.Inside, you will learn: How ransomware became an industry rather than a lone-hacker crime.Why the real hostage is often operational time, not only encrypted files.How ransomware-as-a-service lets more criminals participate without running the full enterprise.Why phishing, infostealers, vulnerabilities, and access brokers feed the market.Why hospitals, schools, cities, and factories face special exposure.Why backups are necessary but insufficient.How victims decide whether to pay, delay, disclose, restore, or rebuild.How leak sites use countdowns, samples, customer panic, and shame as leverage.Why takedowns matter, but do not end the ransomware market.Why the future hostage economy will target cloud systems, identities, SaaS platforms, data, recovery layers, and public trust.Hostage Systems is Book One of The Coercion Stack Series, a nonfiction series about cyber coercion, digital dependency, and the criminal markets that exploit modern infrastructure.The future of ransomware is not only about locked files.It is about institutions that can be hurt, pressured, exposed, delayed, shamed, and forced to make decisions under hostile time pressure.The institutions that survive will be those that become less hostageable.…