Detecting BestMixer: An exploratory study on centralized mixing services

Mixing services try to distort cash flow tracking of cryptocurrencies and obfuscate the origin of customers’ earnings by substituting customers’ cryptocurrency funds with the funds of other customers or the mixers’ private assets. This quality makes mixing services interesting for money laundering, and they are therefore often used by criminals....

Creating a Configuration Security Layer for Embedded Devices: A research-based on the case study of a widely used Embedded Device

As software security expert Bruce Schneier argues, the pervasive vulnerability of embedded systems today is structurally similar to the security crisis of PCs in the mid-1990s—only much worse. Embedded devices are ideal malware targets for several reasons. Firstly, Internet-connected devices are inherently more exposed to remote exploitation....