DarkMarket How Hackers Became the New Mafia

From one of the most intrepid investigative reporters at work today an authoritative, edge-of-your-seat account of the new form of crime spawned by the digital world. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work, live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe in the brick-and-mortar world learned how to protect us in this burgeoning digital world? In fact, governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars a year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, and very smart new breed of criminal. Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller McMafia, has traveled the world speaking with members of military and intelligence communities, police, politicians, lawyers, and most important, with hackers and their victims. He delves beneath the sheer audacity of these twenty-first-century criminals to reveal their personalities and what makes them tick. And he advances often surprising suggestions for the ways in which the authorities might begin to end the cybercrime epidemic. At once a gripping story of true crime and a vital call to arms for our governments, for the private sector, and for anyone who logs on.

Misha Glenny is a former BBC Central Europe correspondent. Glenny covered the fall of Communism and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of McMafia; The Rebirth of History; The Fall of Yugoslavia (which won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs); and The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999. He has been regularly consulted by U.S. and European governments on major policy issues. Misha Glenny lives in London.