A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy

Journal article (2023)

Authors

K. Oosthoek Cyber Security - EEMCS
Jack Cable Stanford University
G. Smaragdakis Cyber Security - EEMCS
Research Group
Cyber Security (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 K. Oosthoek, Jack Cable, G. Smaragdakis
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3582489
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Cyber Security

Abstract

A data-driven, follow-the-money approach to characterize the ransomware ecosystem uncovers two parallel ransomware criminal markets: commodity ransomware and Ransomware as a Service (RaaS).