A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy

Kris Oosthoek; Jack Cable; Georgios Smaragdakis

doi:10.1145/3582489

A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy

Kris Oosthoek, Jack Cable, Georgios Smaragdakis

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A data-driven, follow-the-money approach to characterize the ransomware ecosystem uncovers two parallel ransomware criminal markets: commodity ransomware and Ransomware as a Service (RaaS).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	74–83
Number of pages	10
Journal	Communications of the ACM
Volume	66
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3582489
Publication status	Published - 2023

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