Cybercapos
But as I point out in the dotCrime Manifesto, the mafia is old school. It uses the state of the art in business management being developed in the 1920s. The mafia was organized using line management before most US businesses had got there.
The organization of the cyber-gangs is fashioned after today's state of the art. They use online markets for outsourcing. The gangs are global and operate 24 hours a day. If a criminal in Russia finds some commercial information that is relevant in Brazil they can quickly connect to a local criminal who can make use of it.
In many ways the Internet crime rings are replacing the old-style mafia. And just as online commerce eventually merged with traditional e-tail, the same effect will occur in Internet crime. Those same facilities, for example money laundering, can be used for any criminal purpose. A drug ring can launder proceeds through the same network the Internet criminals developed for extracting stolen money.
