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A pact with the devil

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NSPW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 workshop on New security paradigms

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1278940.1278952

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We study malware propagation strategies which exploit not the incompetence or naivety of users, but instead their own greed, malice and short-sightedness. We demonstrate that interactive propagation strategies, for example bribery and blackmail of computer users, are effective mechanisms for malware to survive and entrench, and present an example employing these techniques. We argue that in terms of propagation, there exists a continuum between legitimate applications and pure malware, rather than a quantised scale.

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Bowen BPrabhu PKemerlis VSidiroglou SKeromytis AStolfo S(2010)BotSwindlerProceedings of the 13th international conference on Recent advances in intrusion detection10.5555/1894166.1894176(118-137)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2010
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DOI:10.1145/1278940

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Bowen BPrabhu PKemerlis VSidiroglou SKeromytis AStolfo S(2010)BotSwindlerProceedings of the 13th international conference on Recent advances in intrusion detection10.5555/1894166.1894176(118-137)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2010
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Kursawe KKatzenbeisser SBeznosov KKeromytis A(2008)Computing under occupationProceedings of the 2007 Workshop on New Security Paradigms10.1145/1600176.1600191(81-88)Online publication date: 15-Jul-2008
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