Fraudulent Activities in the Cyber Realm: DEFRAUDify Project
Razvan-Alexandru Bratulescu, Robert-Ionuţ Vătăşoiu, Sorina-Andreea Mitroi, George Dan Suciu, Mari-Anais Sachian, Daniel-Marian Dutu, Serban-Emanuel Calescu · Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security · 2022
The increase in the number of Internet users has also led to an increase in activities leading to a cyber threat and fraud intelligence. These activities include the use of the Dark Web for coordination and virtual currencies for funding. This article will present the main methods of cyber-attacks and crimes used nowadays, and how they can be prevented by using tools specialized in monitoring transactions with virtual currencies and detecting web pages that pose a threat to users. The tools that will be described in this article are Graphsense used to analyze virtual currency activities and SpiderFoot used to identify Cyber Threat, Attack Surfaces, Security Assessments and Asset Discovery.