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The Mass Effect: How Opportunistic Workers Drift into Cybercrime

By focusing on the most visible cybercriminals, our security community often overlooks the impact of massive groups supporting criminal activities. Yet, these groups act like the "mass effect", where a primary pathology generates an inflating mass that pressures its surrounding, increasing the initial problem's scale. This research was motivated by a desire to uncover the context and motivations of individuals involved in spreading the Geost banking Trojan, and ended with large-scale statistical analyses of behaviors in an informal online market, one of the largest out there. The market was found to host dubious activities through a hide in plain sight approach.. This presentation shares our research journey, depicting the actors involved in the operation of a botnet, their motivations, challenges, and an analysis of the informal market in which they grounded their criminal activities... By: Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Serge-Olivier Paquette, Sebastian Garcia & Maria Jose Erquiaga Full Abstract & Presentation Materials: https://www.blackhat.com/us-21/briefi...