An analysis of underground forums

Marti Motoyama; Damon McCoy; Kirill Levchenko; Stefan Savage; Geoffrey M. Voelker

doi:10.1145/2068816.2068824

An analysis of underground forums

Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker

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Abstract

Underground forums, where participants exchange information on abusive tactics and engage in the sale of illegal goods and services, are a form of online social network (OSN). However, unlike traditional OSNs such as Facebook, in underground forums the pattern of communications does not simply encode pre-existing social relationships, but instead captures the dynamic trust relationships forged between mutually distrustful parties. In this paper, we empirically characterize six different underground forums - - BlackHatWorld, Carders, HackSector, HackE1ite, Freehack, and L33tCrew - - examining the properties of the social networks formed within, the content of the goods and services being exchanged, and lastly, how individuals gain and lose trust in this setting.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IMC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference
Pages	71-79
Number of pages	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2068816.2068824
State	Published - 2011
Event	2011 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC'11 - Berlin, Germany Duration: Nov 2 2011 → Nov 4 2011

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

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Other	2011 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC'11
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	11/2/11 → 11/4/11

Keywords

online social networks
underground forums

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Software
Computer Networks and Communications

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Motoyama, M, McCoy, D, Levchenko, K, Savage, S & Voelker, GM 2011, An analysis of underground forums. in IMC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC, pp. 71-79, 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC'11, Berlin, Germany, 11/2/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2068816.2068824

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