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Author: kurt

Black Markets: An Abuse Fighter’s Oracle of Delphi

Posted on March 7, 2015 by kurt

Specialization within the underground hinges on open communication between criminals who advertise goods and services as well as potential buyers. Forums, chats, storefronts, and freelance labor pages all streamline abuse, but as a consequence expose the broad range of criminal… Continue Reading →

Google, Underground Economies

Account Hijacking in Social Networks

Posted on March 7, 2015 by kurt

Account hijacking has become a routine, large-scale threat that users and online web services face. Like a siren’s call, miscreants seek to monetize on the proliferation of personal data to remote servers. For email and cloud services, the most intimate… Continue Reading →

Malware, Twitter

Ominous Merchants Are Ominous

Posted on August 15, 2013 by kurt

I found this message from hxxp://spamvilla.com amusing for some reason (and totally unrelated to my research):

Twitter, Underground Economies

Trafficking Fraudulent Accounts

Posted on August 13, 2013 by kurt

This post is based on research conducted in collaboration with Twitter, to appear in Usenix Security 2013. A pdf is available under my publications. Any views or opinions discussed herein are my own and not those of Twitter. As web… Continue Reading →

Twitter, Underground Economies

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I'm a research scientist at Google working on security, fraud, and abuse. Contact me at kurt.a.thomas AT gmail.com or @inwyrd.

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