3 papers
cs.CR2024
Showing the Receipts: Understanding the Modern Ransomware Ecosystem
Jack Cable, Ian W. Gray, Damon McCoy
Ransomware attacks continue to wreak havoc across the globe, with public reports of total ransomware payments topping billions of dollars annually. While the use of cryptocurrency…
cs.CR2023★ 6 cited
Money Over Morals: A Business Analysis of Conti Ransomware
Ian W. Gray, Jack Cable, Benjamin Brown +2
Ransomware operations have evolved from relatively unsophisticated threat actors into highly coordinated cybercrime syndicates that regularly extort millions of dollars in a single…
cs.CY2020
Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine
Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios +5
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the demand for goods and services worldwide. The combination of a public health emergency, economic distress, and misinformation-driven panic hav…