Decision-making in cybercriminal underground spaces. Where to go, and why?

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• Luca Allodi, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00
• Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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The underground cybercriminal space is very fragmented. Dozens of forums and hundreds if not thousands of groups and channels on Telegram (not to mention `deep-web’ websites, Discord servers, and others) make a cybercriminal’s life more complicated than not: which community(ies) to join, when, and what for? The decision is riddled with uncertainties: law enforcement presence, risk of exit scams, trustworthiness of buyers and sellers, quality of products, transaction assurances, short and mid-term economic prospects and associated costs; the list goes on.

In this talk we discuss preliminary evidence that criminals may, in the aggregate, prefer communities with a certain set of characteristics for the trade of highly-effective technology. Further, we explore the role of Telegram in this ecosystem and compare it to the mainly forum-based model of the past. If time allows, we then zoom out and discuss what economic theory can tell us about `migration’ decisions across (in our case, criminal) communities, and how to possibly approach the evaluation of cybercriminal spaces from that angle.

This talk is part of the Computer Laboratory Security Seminar series.

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