As cyberattacks grow ever more sophisticated, those who defend against them are embracing behavioural science and economics to understand both the perpetrators and their victims.
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Waldrop, M. How to hack the hackers: The human side of cybercrime. Nature 533, 164–167 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/533164a
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