Cybercrime doesn’t wait for anything or anyone. Two years after publishing our last report on the wares and services traded in the bustling Chinese underground, we found that the market’s operations have further expanded. From traditional malware, Chinese cybercriminals are now looking toward newer innovations and technologies to boost their operations. The Chinese underground now…
Read MoreBefore the end of the month, we will release a new paper in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series titled Russian Underground Revisited. This is a followup to our earlier paper Russian Underground 101; both papers examined the Russian Underground and looked at the goods and services being sold inside these underground communities. While the full details will not…
Read MoreA key part of our cybercrime research focuses on the communities that cybercriminals form. These are used in much the same way that communities of other shared “interests” are – to socialize, to get together, and to buy and sell various items of interest. For security researchers, the activities of these underground communities – and…
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