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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants
Jason Franklin, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, Adrian Perrig

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.

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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.
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    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
                  âhacking for funâ to âhacking for profitâ
                  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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