Do you smell that? It's the scent of your data burning in the great bonfire of human stupidity. In 2025, digital crime is no longer a hobby: it is a mirror economy that spins faster than the Wall Street stock exchange. Welcome to the lesson that will keep you awake at night.
> CHAPTER 1: GENERATIVE AI - THE FLAMETHROWER FOR DIGITAL ARSONISTS_
Forget emails written in broken English that looked like they were chewed by a baboon. Today AI has democratized evil. You don't need to be a genius, you just need a subscription.
- WormGPT & FraudGPT: These models are the "evil twins" of ChatGPT. WormGPT, based on GPT-J-6B, is programmed to spew malware and phishing emails without any moral restrictions [2].
- The Logic of the Market: Why work hard when you can pay $200 a month to have a criminal assistant 24/7? It's the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) model, but the "S" stands for "Slaughtering" your bank accounts [4, 5].
> CHAPTER 2: THE DEATH OF MFA - YOUR PADLOCK IS MADE OF MARZIPAN_
Think Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is your magic shield? Funny. The black market has responded with Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) kits.
- EvilProxy: The alpha predator. It works like a bad "bridge". You think you are on Microsoft 365, you enter the MFA code, and it intercepts it in real time, stealing your "session cookie" [6]. It's as if a thief stole your key while you were turning it in the lock [7].
- Tycoon 2FA: This platform uses sci-fi obfuscation techniques, such as using invisible characters ("Hangul Filler") to hide malicious code from antiviruses [9]. Result? You are naked and you don't even know it.
> CHAPTER 3: DEEPFAKES - THE END OF REALITY_
In 2024, a finance employee transferred $25 million because his "boss" asked him to in a video call. Too bad all the participants were deepfakes [10]. In 2025, cases of digital forgery increased by 244% [11]. If your CEO calls you on Zoom asking for an urgent transfer... well, maybe you should ask him what his cat's name is. Or run.
> CHAPTER 4: THE AXIS OF EVASION - GEOPOLITICS OF BLOOD AND BITS_
The Dark Web is the financial lung of sanctioned regimes. Russia, North Korea, Iran and China have formed an unholy alliance [12].
- The Brokerage of Terror: North Korean hackers (Lazarus Group) steal crypto and launder it through Russian brokers to fund missiles [13]. They use undercover IT workers posing as freelancers to infiltrate your companies and send the earnings to Pyongyang [14].
- Evil Corp: It's not a movie, it's reality. This gang operates under the explicit protection of the Russian FSB. In exchange for protection, they do the dirty work for the State, attacking NATO targets [15, 16].
> CHAPTER 5: THE SUPERMARKETS OF CRIME - AMAZON, BUT FOR SCOUNDRELS_
The marketplaces of 2025 are volatile but hyper-professional.
Warning: Administrators often pull "Exit Scams". They wait until they have millions in their coffers and then vanish into thin air, stealing even from their own vendors. There is no honor among thieves, let alone between you and them [23].
> CHAPTER 6: HUMAN CAPITAL - HACKERS WANTED (EXPERIENCE NOT REQUIRED)_
There is a recruitment crisis on the Dark Web. No, really. There are more candidates than jobs (a 55% surplus) [35].
- Reverse Engineers: The elite. They earn over $5,000 a month (tax-free and in crypto) to disassemble software and find vulnerabilities [34, 36].
- Money Mules: Cannon fodder. They recruit teenagers on TikTok with the promise of "easy money". These poor wretches launder stolen money and are the first to end up in handcuffs when the police knock on the door [37, 39].
> CHAPTER 7: RANSOMWARE - THE RANSOM INDUSTRY_
Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is more profitable than oil. But trust is collapsing.
- BlackCat (ALPHV): After the attack on Change Healthcare, the administrators ran off with $22 million without giving a dime to the hacker who did the dirty work [42, 44].
- Initial Access Brokers (IAB): They are the "pathfinders". They hack your network and sell access to the ransomware gang. Price? From a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on how big your company is [26].
> CHAPTER 8: THE CRYPTO LAUNDRY - USDT ON TRON_
Bitcoin is for amateurs, too traceable. The new king is USDT (Tether) on the Tron network. Fast, cheap and loved by drug cartels and terrorist financiers [13, 7.1].
And if you want to see your savings disappear in a second, there are Wallet Drainers like Inferno or Angel. They convince you to click on a "gift" and empty everything in the blink of an eye [54, 55].