On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime

M Paquet-Clouston, S García - Trends in Organized Crime, 2022 - Springer
The cybercrime industry is characterised by work specialisation to the point that it has
become a volume industry with various “as-a-service” offerings. One well-established “as-a …

Issued for abuse: Measuring the underground trade in code signing certificate

K Kozák, BJ Kwon, D Kim, T Dumitraş - arxiv preprint arxiv:1803.02931, 2018 - arxiv.org
Recent measurements of the Windows code-signing certificate ecosystem have highlighted
various forms of abuse that allow malware authors to produce malicious code carrying valid …

Measuring and disrupting malware distribution networks: An interdisciplinary approach

CC Ife - 2021 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Malware Delivery Networks (MDNs) are networks of webpages, servers, computers, and
computer files that are used by cybercriminals to proliferate malicious software (or malware) …

Pua detection based on bundle installer characteristics

A Lukach, E Gudes, A Shabtai - … Security and Privacy XXXIV: 34th Annual …, 2020 - Springer
Many applications, such as download managers, antivirus, backup utilities, and Web
browsers, are distributed freely via popular download sites in an attempt to increase the …

[PDF][PDF] Measuring the Underground Trade in Code Signing Certificates

BK Kozák - is.muni.cz
Recent measurements of the Windows code signing certificate ecosystem have highlighted
various forms of abuse that allow malware authors to produce malicious code carrying valid …