Title :
Exploit Kits: The production line of the Cybercrime economy?
Author :
Michael Hopkins;Ali Dehghantanha
Author_Institution :
School of Computing, Science, and Engineering, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Abstract :
The annual cost of Cybercrime to the global economy is estimated to be around $400 billion, in support of which Exploit Kits have been providing enabling technology since 2006. This paper reviews the recent developments in Exploit Kit capability and how these are being applied in practice. In doing so it paves the way for better understanding of the exploit kits economy that may better help in combatting them and considers industry´s preparedness to respond.
Keywords :
"Forensics","Computer crime","Malware","Payloads","Advertising"
Conference_Titel :
Information Security and Cyber Forensics (InfoSec), 2015 Second International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/InfoSec.2015.7435501