Cybercrime

Influence, infrastructure, and recentering cybercrime policing: Evaluating emerging approaches to online law enforcement through a market for cybercrime services
We document and evaluate two emerging policing strategies that are reshaping how centralised law enforcement agencies deal with online …
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Booting the booters: Evaluating the effects of police interventions in the market for Denial-of-Service attacks
Illegal booter services offer denial of service (DoS) attacks for a fee of a few tens of dollars a month. Internationally, police have …
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Measuring eWhoring
eWhoring is the term used by offenders to refer to a type of online fraud in which cybersexual encounters are simulated for financial …
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CrimeBB: Enabling cybercrime research on underground forums at scale
Underground forums allow criminals to interact, exchange knowledge, and trade in products and services. They also provide a pathway …
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Ethical issues in research using datasets of illicit origin
We evaluate the use of data obtained by illicit means against a broad set of ethical and legal issues. Our analysis covers both the …
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1000 days of UDP amplification DDoS attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks employing reflected UDP amplification are regularly used to disrupt networks and systems. …
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