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Kylie McRoberts
dblp:224/2330
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
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Security and privacy · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Malware analysis · 50% Digital forensics and information hiding · 50% | |
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Network measurement and analytics · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Digital forensics and information hiding
cryptocurrency forensics |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Tracking Ransomware End-to-end · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2018 |
Malware analysis › ransomware
ransomware analysis |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | Tracking Ransomware End-to-end · IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
measurement study · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Tracking Ransomware End-to-endabstractRansomware is a type of malware that encrypts the files of infected hosts and demands payment, often in a crypto-currency like Bitcoin. In this paper, we create a measurement framework that we use to perform a large-scale, two-year, end-to-end measurement of ransomware payments, victims, and operators. By combining an array of data sources, including ransomware binaries, seed ransom payments, victim telemetry from infections, and a large database of bitcoin addresses annotated with their owners, we sketch the outlines of this burgeoning ecosystem and associated third-party infrastructure. In particular, we are able to trace the financial transactions, from the acquisition of bitcoins by victims, through the payment of ransoms, to the cash out of bitcoins by the ransomware operators. We find that many ransomware operators cashed out using BTC-e, a now-defunct Bitcoin exchange. In total we are able to track over $16 million USD in likely ransom payments made by 19,750 potential victims during a two-year period. While our study focuses on ransomware, our methods are potentially applicable to other cybercriminal operations that have similarly adopted Bitcoin as their payment channel. Danny Yuxing Huang, Max Aliapoulios, Vector Guo Li, Luca Invernizzi, Elie Bursztein, Kylie McRoberts, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, Damon McCoy |
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | 6 |