motivation? --- I think these are rather factors that facilitate the development and growth of cybercrime than motivation (to me motivation would refer to the motives of cybercriminals, which can be financial gain, but also other motives like political, personal revenge, etc). What I can add to this list is: - the availability of technologies and also services, e.g. "cybercrime as service" - the ability to reach to/target countless a large number of victims across borders (relates to ubiquitous connectivity) - for some crimes: ability to generate big harm or high profits by stealing small sums and go unnoticed. To illustrate: there were cases when the banking malware stole very small sums from each account of the victim, but due to the high number of victims the criminals generated large amounts. In a nutshell, instead of robbing a bank and stealing 100000 EUR at once one can steal 1 EUR from 100000 account with a less risk to get noticed and reported.

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