cybercrime

Towards Better Understanding of Cybercrime: The Role of Fine-Tuned LLMs in Translation

Towards Better Understanding of Cybercrime: The Role of Fine-Tuned LLMs in Translation

Our paper explores the use of Large Language Models as mechanisms to translate public hacktivists messages from Russian to English as a way to address all these problems. We show how our method can achieve high-fidelity translations and significantly reduce costs by a factor ranging from 430 to 23,000 compared to a human translator.

Studying Cybercrime is Fun! An Overview of Five Years of Research Surrounding the Geost Botnet

Studying Cybercrime is Fun! An Overview of Five Years of Research Surrounding the Geost Botnet

This blog shows how a curious research experiment can lead a student into an interesting cybercrime investigation that contains weird -yet interesting- topics, such as understanding underground attackers, botnets, informal Internet forums, and the economy of encrypting malware-as-a-service.