Cyber crime fascinates me! The confidence that anonymity gives some people is pretty shocking, finding how they do this and the newest methods is not just interesting but also really useful. I wish more people would pay attention to the dangers of cyber crime.

I found this book engrossing and informative even if sometimes it's a bit hard to follow.
I work in a high tech company so I was attracted by the blurb and I can say it met all my expectations.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I didn't finish this. I worked my way through about 30% but just couldn't get on with it.
The premise sounded interesting, but I had issues with the structure and the writing of the book overall. I picked this up as my partner is in IT and I wanted to know more about cyber crime. A few interesting thoughts, but nothing more.

I really, thoroughly did not enjoy this book. I requested it thinking it would be relevant to my professional life, and interesting in my personal life, and was interested and quite excited to read it. A chronicle of the seedy underbelly and human stories behind the disjointed and insidious world of cyber crime? I was definitely on board. But what I actually read was a disjointed mess of a book. Trying to straddle the line between narrative and descriptive non-fiction, it fails entirely to be either. A cast of characters who read like they're made up, despite being purportedly based on real people fail to around even the most basic of emotions - interest. There are few descriptions of how cybercrime works or influences those involved in it. The strongest part of the book was the occasional insights into how keyloggers and trackers are spread - a brief aside into data collection methods employed through the use of dodgy USB keys was probably the most interesting and valuable thing I'll take away from this. Disjointed and disconnected, there was a plethora of stories in this book which spanned the globe, covering cyber criminals from all walks of life. Although generally unconnected, the book tried (and failed) to weave them together, leaving me utterly dissatisfied with any notion of a narrative thread running through the book. Presented as a series of vignettes with chapter titles describing aspects of the people they cover, I can see why the writing was presented like this. Ultimately, readers are interested in people, and presenting the book like this gives the reader an insight into many people. I can see also why the writing style was chosen - slick and taut, each chapter reads like it could be the introduction to the latest crime thriller, drawing the reader in and setting the scene for the investigation that is to come. But ultimately I felt that this book fails to make good use of that. It draws the reader in with characters, but doesn't take them anywhere, and leaves with with only a dissatisfied surface level of knowledge about many people. The focus on people means that any knowledge of cyber crime the reader gleans is surface level at best and ultimately not particularly valuable. The narrative style lends itself to expecting an actual plot, which never materialises.
Some very strange editorial choices made in this book which didn't work for me at all. I appreciate non-fiction written as fiction, and I appreciate non-fiction written as non-fiction. This book is neither, and ends up sitting in an uneasy hinterland that undermines the undoubtedly valuable experience that CNBC cybercrime reporter Fazzini is trying to discuss.