TY - GEN
T1 - Dirty jobs
T2 - 20th USENIX Security Symposium
AU - Motoyama, Marti
AU - McCoy, Damon
AU - Levchenko, Kirill
AU - Savage, Stefan
AU - Voelker, Geoffrey M.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Modern Web services inevitably engender abuse, as attackers find ways to exploit a service and its user base. However, while defending against such abuse is generally considered a technical endeavor, we argue that there is an increasing role played by human labor markets. Using over seven years of data from the popular crowdsourcing site Freelancer.com, as well data from our own active job solicitations, we characterize the labor market involved in service abuse. We identify the largest classes of abuse work, including account creation, social networking link generation and search engine optimization support, and characterize how pricing and demand have evolved in supporting this activity.
AB - Modern Web services inevitably engender abuse, as attackers find ways to exploit a service and its user base. However, while defending against such abuse is generally considered a technical endeavor, we argue that there is an increasing role played by human labor markets. Using over seven years of data from the popular crowdsourcing site Freelancer.com, as well data from our own active job solicitations, we characterize the labor market involved in service abuse. We identify the largest classes of abuse work, including account creation, social networking link generation and search engine optimization support, and characterize how pricing and demand have evolved in supporting this activity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84856151953
T3 - Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium
SP - 203
EP - 218
BT - Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Security Symposium
PB - USENIX Association
Y2 - 8 August 2011 through 12 August 2011
ER -