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Data Breaches, Phishing, or Malware?: Understanding the Risks of Stolen Credentials

Kurt Thomas,Frank H. Li,10 Authors,Elie Bursztein

2017 · DOI: 10.1145/3133956.3134067
Conference on Computer and Communications Security · 256 Citations

TLDR

The first longitudinal measurement study of the underground ecosystem fueling credential theft and the risk it poses to millions of users is presented and a remarkable lack of external pressure on bad actors is observed, with phishing kit playbooks and keylogger capabilities remaining largely unchanged since the mid-2000s.