Structuring Disincentives for Online Criminals
Journal: Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University)
Year: 2014

This thesis considers the structural characteristics of online criminal networks from a technical and an economic perspective. Through large-scale measurements, we empirically describe some salient elements of the online criminal infrastructures, and we derive economic models characterizing the associated monetization paths enabling criminal profitability. This analysis reveals the existence of structural choke points: components of online criminal operations being limited in number, and critica