This paper studies an active underground economy which specializes in the commoditization of activities such as credit card fraud, identity theft, spamming, phishing, online crede...
Jason Franklin, Adrian Perrig, Vern Paxson, Stefan...
Malicious programs spy on users’ behavior and compromise their privacy. Even software from reputable vendors, such as Google Desktop and Sony DRM media player, may perform undes...
Heng Yin, Dawn Xiaodong Song, Manuel Egele, Christ...
In recent years, malicious software (malware) has become one of the most insidious threats in computer security. However, this is arguably not the result of increased sophisticati...
The academic community has long acknowledged the existence of malicious botnets, however to date, very little is known about the behavior of these distributed computing platforms....
Moheeb Abu Rajab, Jay Zarfoss, Fabian Monrose, And...
Large-scale attacks, such as those launched by worms and zombie farms, pose a serious threat to our network-centric society. Existing approaches such as software patches are simpl...