We document and evaluate emerging policing strategies that are resha** how centralised
law enforcement agencies deal with online cybercrime markets. The first of these we term …

Abstract The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a crucial role in connecting services and
users on the Internet. Since its first specification, DNS has been extended in numerous …

Denial-of-Service attacks have rapidly increased in terms of frequency and intensity, steadily
becoming one of the biggest threats to Internet stability and reliability. However, a rigorous …

Underground forums allow criminals to interact, exchange knowledge, and trade in products
and services. They also provide a pathway into cybercrime, tempting the curious to join …

Underground forums contain many thousands of active users, but the vast majority will be
involved, at most, in minor levels of deviance. The number who engage in serious criminal …

DDoS attacks remain a major security threat to the continuous operation of Internet edge
infrastructures, web services, and cloud platforms. While a large body of research focuses …

We evaluate the use of data obtained by illicit means against a broad set of ethical and legal
issues. Our analysis covers both the direct collection, and secondary uses of, data obtained …

In this paper, we shed new light on the DNS amplification ecosystem, by studying
complementary data sources, bolstered by orthogonal methodologies. First, we introduce a …

Amplification attacks generate an enormous flood of unwanted traffic towards a victim and
are generated with the help of open, unsecured services, to which an adversary sends …

Illegal booter services offer denial of service (DoS) attacks for a fee of a few tens of dollars a
month. Internationally, police have implemented a range of different types of intervention …