Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains

Rasika Bhalerao; Maxwell Aliapoulios; Ilia Shumailov; Sadia Afroz; Damon Mccoy

doi:10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037582

Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains

Rasika Bhalerao, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Ilia Shumailov, Sadia Afroz, Damon Mccoy

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Understanding the sequences of processes needed to perform a cybercrime is crucial for effective interventions. However, generating these supply chains currently requires time-consuming manual effort. We propose a method that leverages machine learning and graph-based analysis to efficiently extract supply chains from cybercrime forums. Our supply chain detection algorithm can identify 33% and 42% relevant chains within major English and Russian forums, respectively, showing improvements over the baselines of 11% and 5%, respectively. Our analysis of the supply chains demonstrates underlying connections between products and services that are potentially useful understanding and undermining the illicit activity of these forums. For example, our extracted supply chains illuminate cash out and money laundering techniques and their importance to the functioning of these forums.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728163833
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037582
State	Published - Nov 2019
Event	2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019 - Pittsburgh, United States Duration: Nov 13 2019 → Nov 15 2019

Publication series

Name	eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime
Volume	2019-November
ISSN (Print)	2159-1237
ISSN (Electronic)	2159-1245

Conference

Conference	2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019
Country	United States
City	Pittsburgh
Period	11/13/19 → 11/15/19

Keywords

Cybercrime
Natural Language Processing
Security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Information Systems and Management

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Bhalerao, R., Aliapoulios, M., Shumailov, I., Afroz, S., & Mccoy, D. (2019). Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains. In Proceedings of the 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019 [9037582] (eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime; Vol. 2019-November). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037582

Mapping the Underground : Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains. / Bhalerao, Rasika; Aliapoulios, Maxwell; Shumailov, Ilia; Afroz, Sadia; Mccoy, Damon.

Proceedings of the 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. 9037582 (eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime; Vol. 2019-November).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Bhalerao, R, Aliapoulios, M, Shumailov, I, Afroz, S & Mccoy, D 2019, Mapping the Underground: Supervised Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains. in Proceedings of the 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019., 9037582, eCrime Researchers Summit, eCrime, vol. 2019-November, IEEE Computer Society, 2019 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research, eCrime 2019, Pittsburgh, United States, 11/13/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/eCrime47957.2019.9037582

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