...Anna Cartwright; Edward Cartwright; Lian Xue; Julio Hernandez-Castro Purpose Ransomware is a relatively new form of financial extortion that is proving a major cyber-security threat to individuals and organisations. This study aims to investigate factors that may influence an individual's...

... to the pandemic, COVID-19-themed cyber fraud is also growing. This article explores cyber fraud victimization and cyber security threats during COVID-19 using psychological and traditional criminological theories. It also provides a COVID-19-themed cyber fraud typology using empirical evidence from institutional...

... these findings to help improve human detection and protect users from this financial and psychologically harmful cyberscam. Fraud Cyber security Cyber scams Human detection Romance scam Online romance scams are one of the most common and lucrative (for criminals) cyber-enabled scams (ACCC, 2016...