Targeting key data breach services in underground supply chain

Weifeng Li, Junming Yin, Hsinchun Chen

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7 Scopus citations

Abstract

Over the past decade, a growing body of cybercriminals have founded an underground supply chain to facilitate data breaches, leading to the leak of personal information for hundreds of millions of individuals. As many service providers in the supply chain are rippers, cybercriminals tend to rely on a few key services. Identifying key services is of great interest to both cybersecurity researchers and practitioners. This study presents a text-mining framework for identifying key data breach services based on analysis of service reviews. The framework includes crawlers with counter anti-crawling measures, text preprocessing, and supervised topic models. In our experiment, more than 70% of the key services were identified by our framework.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Subtitle of host publicationCybersecurity and Big Data, ISI 2016
EditorsWenji Mao, G. Alan Wang, Lina Zhou, Lisa Kaati
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages322-324
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781509038657
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 15 2016
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2015 - Tucson, United States
Duration: Sep 28 2016Sep 30 2016

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Cybersecurity and Big Data, ISI 2016

Other

Other14th IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityTucson
Period9/28/169/30/16

Keywords

  • data breach
  • hacker forum
  • key services
  • text mining
  • underground economy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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