RT Article
T1 Assessing Racial and Ethnically Motivated Extremist Cyberattacks Using Open Source Data
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 36
IS 1
SP 113
OP 126
A1 Holt, Thomas J. 1978-
A2 Chermak, Steven M. 1964-
A2 Freilich, Joshua D.
A2 Turner, Noah
A2 Greene-Colozzi, Emily
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1877244465
AB Over the last twenty years, researchers have noted the range of violent and financial crimes performed by racial and ethnically-motivated actors. There is also substantial evidence demonstrating the ways that these actors utilize the Internet and various online communications platforms as a resource to recruit others and coordinate criminal activities. As virtually all aspects of modern interpersonal communication, commerce, and government depend on the Internet, these resources are a likely target for ideologically-motivated attacks. There is, however, little research considering the extent to which these resources have been targeted by racial and ethnically-motivated actors. This study attempted to address this gap in the literature through an analysis of the Extremist CyberCrime Database (ECCD), a unique open-source repository of cyberattacks performed against U.S. targets from 1998 to 2020. The findings demonstrate that cyberattacks performed by these actors are performed with less frequency than offline crimes. The implications of this analysis for our understanding of extremism are explored in depth.
K1 Cybercrime
K1 ideological violence
K1 racial and ethnically motivated crime
K1 Extremism
K1 Cyberterror
DO 10.1080/09546553.2022.2119848