Targeting key data breach services in underground supply chain
Weifeng Li, Junming Yin, Hsinchun Chen · 2016
Over the past decade, a growing body of cybercriminals have founded an underground supply chain to facilitate data breaches, leading to the leak of personal information for hundreds of millions of individuals. As many service providers in the supply chain are rippers, cybercriminals tend to rely on a few key services. Identifying key services is of great interest to both cybersecurity researchers and practitioners. This study presents a text-mining framework for identifying key data breach services based on analysis of service reviews. The framework includes crawlers with counter anti-crawling measures, text preprocessing, and supervised topic models. In our experiment, more than 70% of the key services were identified by our framework.