Google: New research: The underground market fueling for-profit abuse
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2015/09/new-research-underground-market-fueling.html
Recently, we teamed up with top researchers exploring
innovative anti-abuse strategies to build a holistic
understanding of for-profit abuse. The full report, which you
can read here, was presented in June at the Workshop on the
Economics of Information Security 2015. Over the last decade,
Internet crime has matured into an underground economy where a
large number of globally distributed criminals trade in data,
knowledge, and services specifically geared towards defrauding
users and businesses. Within this black market, criminals buy
and sell compromised machines, scam hosting, exploit kits, and
wholesale access to pilfered user records including usernames
and passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive personal
data. The availability of such specialized resources has
transformed for-profit abuse into a cooperative effort among
criminals each satisfying a cog in a supply chain.
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--Lauren--
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