• DocumentCode
    11661
  • Title

    Cybercrime: Dissecting the State of Underground Enterprise

  • Author

    Sood, Ashok ; Bansal, Rajeev ; Enbody, R.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    Jan.-Feb. 2013
  • Firstpage
    60
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    Cybercrime´s tentacles reach deeply into the Internet. A complete, underground criminal economy has developed that lets malicious actors steal money through the Web. The authors detail this enterprise, showing how information, expertise, and money flow through it. Understanding the underground economy´s structure is critical for fighting it.
  • Keywords
    Internet; computer crime; Internet; Web; criminal economy; cybercrime tentacles; economy structure; underground enterprise; Computer crime; Computer security; Government policies; Internet; Malware; botnets; cyber warfare; cybercrime; exploit packs; hacking; malware; underground economy; vulnerabilities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2012.61
  • Filename
    6197174