DOI: 10.1145/3582489 ISSN: 0001-0782
A Tale of Two Markets: Investigating the Ransomware Payments Economy
Kris Oosthoek, Jack Cable, Georgios Smaragdakis- General Computer Science
A data-driven, follow-the-money approach to characterize the ransomware ecosystem uncovers two parallel ransomware criminal markets: commodity ransomware and Ransomware as a Service (RaaS).