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terrorism. The criminal groups mostly have a rational approach to their business as the majority of the
professional criminals work for a profit and if a legal system is pressed by terrorism, armed conflicts,
social unrests and much more those governments must take into a consideration some kind of the
negotiation or making a favor to those who are in position to dictate the rules literally forcing the entire
areas to collapse in front of their pressure obviously frightening anyone to get a barbarian if that person
or institution is not willing to make their list of wishes getting satisfied, so far.
In addition, the modern terrorism is strongly correlated with the roads of drug smuggling, human
trafficking, firearms distribution and the entire spectrum of the heavy case criminalities which appear to
take control over the global landscape as those criminal networks frequently operate transnationally
supporting terror groups, because of a plenty of the benefits and interests they can get if they obtain a
rulership over some territory. Therefore, those criminal organizations are getting very sophisticated for a
reason they use a service of the cybercrime underworld, as well as they look for an economic power over
some country as they put a lot of money into a legal flow doing a money laundering which can give them
a capacity to create a political and social situation within some area. Indeed, those lawbreakers show a
tendency to get untouched in any sense as they need their safe place where no one will recognized them
as criminals, but more likely as highly successful businessmen who have a heap of the amazing business
ideas which have made them rich and powerful in the eyes of public. On the other hand, the majority of
jihadist groups seek to be with a dominance, but in order to intimidate a community they have to work
hard in preparing a terror operation and if they are mostly occupied with such an activity, they would
obviously get no time to make a profit as professional criminals do and that’s why they will accept a
financial help from, say, drug lords and their trafficking group, so far. Above all, all those actors are
desperately dependable on the novel technologies and even if they could get many benefits from so, they
will literally cope with a sword with two edges as the modern authorities can cut their communications
and totally uncover their information exchange in a cyberspace which can be assumed as their greatest
weakness for a reason there are some methods to get their spot of grouping which gives confidence to
the good guys the lawful communities might stay at least a step in front of the arising threat.
About The Author
Milica D. Djekic is an Independent Researcher from Subotica, the Republic of
Serbia. She received her engineering background from the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She writes for some domestic
and overseas presses and she is also the author of the books “The Internet of
Things: Concept, Applications and Security” and “The Insider’s Threats:
Operational, Tactical and Strategic Perspective” being published in 2017 and
2021 respectively with the Lambert Academic Publishing. Milica is also a
speaker with the BrightTALK expert’s channel. She is the member of an ASIS
International since 2017 and contributor to the Australian Cyber Security
Magazine since 2018. Milica's research efforts are recognized with Computer
Emergency Response Team for the European Union (CERT-EU), Censys Press, BU-CERT UK and
EASA European Centre for Cybersecurity in Aviation (ECCSA). Her fields of interests are cyber defense,
technology and business. Milica is a person with disability.
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