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Citation
Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Adrian Perrig. "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants". ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, November, 2007.

Abstract
This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online credential theft, and the sale of compromised hosts. Using a seven month trace of logs collected from an active underground market operating on public Internet chat networks, we measure how the shift from “hacking for fun” to “hacking for profit” has given birth to a societal substrate mature enough to steal wealth into the millions of dollars in less than one year.

Electronic downloads

• http://sparrow.ece.cmu.edu/group/pub/franklin_paxson_perrig_savage_miscreants.pdf

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  Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Adrian Perrig.
  <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/385.html"
  >An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
  Internet Miscreants</a>, ACM Conference on Computer
  and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, November, 2007.

• Plain text

  Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Adrian Perrig.
  "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of
  Internet Miscreants". ACM Conference on Computer and
  Communications Security (CCS), ACM, November, 2007.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{FranklinPaxsonSavagePerrig07_InquiryIntoNatureCausesOfWealthOfInternetMiscreants,
      author = {Jason Franklin and Vern Paxson and Stefan Savage
                and Adrian Perrig},
      title = {An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
                Wealth of Internet Miscreants},
      booktitle = {ACM Conference on Computer and Communications
                Security (CCS)},
      organization = {ACM},
      month = {November},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {This paper studies an active underground economy
                which specializes in the commoditization of
                activities such as credit card fraud, identity
                theft, spamming, phishing, online credential
                theft, and the sale of compromised hosts. Using a
                seven month trace of logs collected from an active
                underground market operating on public Internet
                chat networks, we measure how the shift from
                �hacking for fun� to �hacking for profit�
                has given birth to a societal substrate mature
                enough to steal wealth into the millions of
                dollars in less than one year.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/385.html}
  }
  

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