CrimeBB: Enabling Cybercrime Research on Underground Forums at Scale
CrimeBB: Enabling Cybercrime Research on Underground Forums at Scale
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CrimeBB：在地下论坛上进行大规模网络犯罪研究
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2018
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通讯作者：
R. Clayton
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S. Pastrana;Daniel R. Thomas;Alice Hutchings;R. Clayton
地下论坛允许犯罪分子互动、交流知识以及进行产品和服务交易。它们还提供了一条进入网络犯罪的途径，引诱好奇的人加入那些已经有动机获得容易赚钱的人的行列。分析这些论坛使我们能够更好地了解罪犯的行为和犯罪途径。以前的研究是有价值的，但受限于对不完整或过时的数据集的依赖。更完整的数据可以追溯到许多年前，允许对论坛及其用户的演变进行全面研究。我们描述了CrimeBot，这是一个围绕从地下论坛捕获数据的特殊挑战而设计的爬虫程序。CrimeBot被用来更新和维护CrimeBB，这是一个十年来从4个不同运营论坛的100万个账户发布的逾4800万条帖子的数据集。这一数据集为使用最新信息进行大规模和纵向分析提供了新的机会。我们通过使用CrimeBB的案例研究来说明这种潜力，该研究分析了哪些活动导致新的行为者参与网络犯罪。根据一项旨在防止滥用并为伦理研究提供保障的法律协议，CrimeBB可供其他学术研究人员使用。
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 those already motivated to obtain easy money. Analysing these forums enables us to better understand the behaviours of offenders and pathways into crime. Prior research has been valuable, but limited by a reliance on datasets that are incomplete or outdated. More complete data, going back many years, allows for comprehensive research into the evolution of forums and their users. We describe CrimeBot, a crawler designed around the particular challenges of capturing data from underground forums. CrimeBot is used to update and maintain CrimeBB, a dataset of more than 48m posts made from 1m accounts in 4 different operational forums over a decade. This dataset presents a new opportunity for large-scale and longitudinal analysis using up-to-date information. We illustrate the potential by presenting a case study using CrimeBB, which analyses which activities lead new actors into engagement with cybercrime. CrimeBB is available to other academic researchers under a legal agreement, designed to prevent misuse and provide safeguards for ethical research.
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2016
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Khattak, S.
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Khattak, S.