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Friday, August 24, 2018

Plug and Prey? Measuring the Commoditization of Cybercrime via Online Anonymous Markets

"Plug and Prey? Measuring the Commoditization of Cybercrime viaOnline Anonymous Markets", Rolf van Wegberg and alt., Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium. August 15–17, 2018 • Baltimore, MD, USA, 19 pages. 
"Researchers have observed the increasing commoditization of cybercrime, that is, the offering of capabilities, services, and resources as commodities by specialized suppliers in the underground economy. Commoditization enables outsourcing, thus lowering entry barriers for aspiring criminals, and potentially driving further growth in cybercrime. While there is evidence in the literature of specific examples of cybercrime commoditization, the overall phenomenon is much less understood. Which parts of cybercrime value chains are successfully commoditized, and which are not? What kind of revenue do criminal business-to-business (B2B) services generate and how fast are they growing?..."

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