"Prevention Better Than Cure at Keeping Young Users From Getting Involved in Cybercrime"
A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Strathclyde explored the different ways in which law enforcement attempts to prevent young people from engaging in cybercrime to see how effective these methods are. According to the findings of this study, the removal of infrastructure and the launch of highly-targeted messaging campaigns by law enforcement are effective at reducing cyberattacks over a longer period of time as opposed to high-profile arrests and convictions of cybercriminals. Booter services refer to services offered by cybercriminals to those seeking to easily execute denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. These services are often used by gaming site users to attack each other. Researchers looked at how certain law enforcement interventions impacted the volume of DoS attacks. This article continues to discuss how the study was performed by researchers and what the results of this study suggest.