Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies
Cybercrime is (often) boring: maintaining the infrastructure of cybercrime economies
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网络犯罪（通常）很无聊：维护网络犯罪经济的基础设施
DOI：
10.17863/cam.53769
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
Daniel R. Thomas
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作者：
Ben Collier;R. Clayton;Alice Hutchings;Daniel R. Thomas
人们普遍认为，在过去的十五到二十年里，专家服务的广泛提供帮助推动了网络犯罪的增长。参与网络犯罪的个人和团体不再需要建立自己的僵尸网络或发送自己的垃圾邮件，因为他们可以付钱给其他人做这些事情。很少有人提到的是这些专业供应商所做的繁琐的行政和维修工作。关于开发新的恶意软件或识别零日漏洞的技术复杂工作有很多讨论，但操作基础设施的日常任务的平凡性质几乎完全被忽视了。运行防弹托管服务，放牧僵尸网络或扫描反射器以用于拒绝服务攻击是乏味和乏味的工作，并且与合法系统管理员的活动几乎没有什么不同。我们提供了三个案例研究的专业服务，支持非法经济，并绘制出他们的特点，使用定性社会学研究，涉及采访基础设施提供商和刮数据从网络论坛和聊天频道。这使我们能够确定一些独特的文化和经济因素，涉及这一基础设施的工作，并注意到，特别是，它的无聊性质如何导致倦怠和服务的撤回。这使我们提出了一些新的理解方法，可以为破坏网络犯罪开辟新的途径。
It is generally accepted that the widespread availability of specialist services has helped drive the growth of cybercrime in the past fifteen to twenty years. Individuals and groups involved in cybercrime no longer need to build their own botnet or send their own spam because they can pay others to do these things. What has seldom been remarked upon is the amount of tedious administrative and maintenance work put in by these specialist suppliers. There is much discussion of the technically sophisticated work of developing new strains of malware or identifying zero-day exploits but the mundane nature of the day to day tasks of operating infrastructure has been almost entirely overlooked. Running bulletproof hosting services, herding botnets, or scanning for reflectors to use in a denial of service attack is unglamorous and tedious work, and is little different in character from the activity of legitimate sysadmins. We provide three case studies of specialist services that underpin illicit economies and map out their characteristics using qualitative sociological research involving interviews with infrastructure providers and scraped data from webforums and chat channels. This enables us to identify some of the distinct cultural and economic factors which attend this infrastructural work and to note, in particular, how its boring nature leads to burnout and the withdrawal of services. This leads us to suggest ways in which this new understanding could open novel avenues for the disruption of cybercrime.
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发表时间：
2019
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作者：
Arman Noroozian;J. Koenders;Eelco van Veldhuizen;C. Gañán;Sumayah A. Alrwais;Damon McCoy;M. V. Eeten
通讯作者：
Arman Noroozian;J. Koenders;Eelco van Veldhuizen;C. Gañán;Sumayah A. Alrwais;Damon McCoy;M. V. Eeten
“我祈祷我们能找到一种方法来实现这个梦想”：执法镇压如何团结在线社区
影响因子：
1.9
作者：
Ladegaard, Isak
通讯作者：
Ladegaard, Isak