Empiricism vs. the Underground Economy: Recent Trends and Developments
Event details
| Date | 19.06.2012 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Christian Kreibich, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley, USA |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
In his script for "All the President's Men", author William Goldman coined the famous adage "follow the money", giving Woodward and Bernstein crucial advice for their investigation. In the past years, the growth of the Internet has enabled a financially motivated underground marketplace that presents a case perhaps less politically motivated but surely no less thrilling, in which this classic strategy has seen only limited use. In this talk I will describe how following the money trail in this rapidly evolving
economy has lead us from purely technical botnet infiltrations to experiments that monitor today's "pay-per-install" marketplace for malware distribution, measure the conversion rate of spam, and identify key players as well as bottlenecks in the spam value chain from advertising to product fulfillment.
Bio:
Christian Kreibich is a research scientist in the Networking Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His research interests focus on the intersection of network architecture, network monitoring, and network security. Christian obtained his Diplom in Computer Science from Technical University Munich in 2002, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2006.
In his script for "All the President's Men", author William Goldman coined the famous adage "follow the money", giving Woodward and Bernstein crucial advice for their investigation. In the past years, the growth of the Internet has enabled a financially motivated underground marketplace that presents a case perhaps less politically motivated but surely no less thrilling, in which this classic strategy has seen only limited use. In this talk I will describe how following the money trail in this rapidly evolving
economy has lead us from purely technical botnet infiltrations to experiments that monitor today's "pay-per-install" marketplace for malware distribution, measure the conversion rate of spam, and identify key players as well as bottlenecks in the spam value chain from advertising to product fulfillment.
Bio:
Christian Kreibich is a research scientist in the Networking Group at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. His research interests focus on the intersection of network architecture, network monitoring, and network security. Christian obtained his Diplom in Computer Science from Technical University Munich in 2002, and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2006.
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- General public
- Free
Organizer
- SuRI 2012
Contact
- Simone Muller