2.2 Evolution of Cyber Crime

The morphs' line: the pranks-to-the-profit (the 1980s'-hackers' (the curiosity-and-the-credibility's- era (the Morris-worm's-1988-lore)) → the 2000s'-the-criminal-industry (the phishing-and-the- carding (the organised's-arrival))); the state's-face (the espionage-and-the-disruption (the Stuxnet-2010-era's-lore (the names-only))); the platform-era (the social-engineering's (the scam- industry's ( the BEC-the-romance-and-the-investment's ( the Nepal-migrant's-targeting's (the remittance's (the "digital-arrest"-era's-faces (the current's-hedge)))))); the RaaS (the ransomware- as-a-service (the crime's-SaaS (the franchise's))); the AI-era (the deepfake's-and-the-automated- attack's (the U5.6's)).