Cybercrime

An Extensive Study of Residential Proxies in China

We carry out the first in-depth characterization of residential proxies (RESIPs) in China, for which little is studied in previous works.Our study is made possible through a semantic-based classifier to automatically capture RESIP services. In …

Clues in Tweets: Twitter-Guided Discovery and Analysis of SMS Spam

In this research project, up-to-date SMS spam campaigns are harvested by means of a continous and intelligent pipeline. An extensive measurement is also conducted with insightful security observations distilled.

Under the shadow of sunshine: Understanding and detecting bulletproof hosting on legitimate service pr ovider networks

How can millions of residential IPs serve as traffic exits in commercial web proxy networks?