Text Categorization with Suport Vector Machines: Learning with Many Relevant Features
ECML '98 Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Machine Learning
Board Forum Crawling: A Web Crawling Method for Web Forum
WI '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of internet miscreants
Proceedings of the 14th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Incorporating site-level knowledge to extract structured data from web forums
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Learning more about the underground economy: a case-study of keyloggers and dropzones
ESORICS'09 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research in computer security
An analysis of underground forums
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Survey and taxonomy of botnet research through life-cycle
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Cyber-criminals around the world are using Internet-based communication channels to establish trade relationships and complete fraudulent transactions. Furthermore, they control and operate publicly accessible information channels that serve as marketplaces for the underground economy. In this work, we present a novel system for automatically monitoring these channels and their participants. Our approach is focused on creating a stealthy system, which allows it to stay largely undetected by both marketplace operators and participants. We implemented a prototype that is capable of monitoring IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and web forum marketplaces, and successfully performed an experimental evaluation over a period of 11 months. In our experimental evaluation we present the findings about the captured underground information channels and their characteristics.