Hopkins, M. and Dehghantanha, A. (2015) Exploit Kits: The production line of the Cybercrime Economy. In: Information Security and Cyber Forensics (InfoSec), 2015 Second International Conference on. 2015 Second International Conference on Information Security and Cyber Forensics (InfoSec), 15-17 Nov 2015, Cape Town, South Africa. IEEE ISBN 9781467369886
Abstract
The annual cost of Cybercrime to the global economy is estimated to be around 400 billion dollar in support of which Exploit Kits have been providing enabling technology.This paper reviews the recent developments in Exploit Kit capability and how these are being applied in practice.In doing so it paves the way for better understanding of the exploit kits economy that may better help in combatting them and considers industry preparedness to respond.
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Keywords: | Malvertising; Exploit Kit; Driveby; Malware |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2018 13:30 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2018 13:34 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1109/InfoSec.2015.7435501 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/InfoSec.2015.7435501 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:128364 |