纠缠：网络犯罪网络营销论坛人口的连接
Entanglement: Cybercrime Connections of an Internet Marketing Forum Population
摘要：
许多与网上犯罪行动有关的活动并不需要太多的保密性，例如开发网站或翻译文本。这项研究表明，一个流行的公共互联网营销论坛的许多用户与网络犯罪有联系。它通过调查对互联网营销感兴趣的用户群体在微观和宏观层面上参与网络犯罪来做到这一点。该研究首先对三名被证实参与网络犯罪的用户及其使用公共论坛的情况进行了案例研究，用户在公共论坛上分享了有关在线广告的信息。它提供了一个初步的一瞥，一些与网络犯罪连接的业务正在进行的明确。然后，该研究通过寻找交叉用户来调查论坛人口与网络犯罪的联系，交叉用户是公共论坛的用户，他们也在网络犯罪论坛上发表评论。分析了他们讨论的网络犯罪论坛，并报告了交叉用户的参与强度。此外，为了评估他们是否代表论坛人口的子组，他们在公共论坛上的发帖行为与非交叉用户进行比较。这种混合分析表明，（一）至少有7.2%的公共论坛人口是与网络犯罪论坛有联系的交叉用户;（二）他们对网络犯罪论坛的参与有限;（三）他们的发帖行为与非交叉用户的发帖行为相对难以区分。这是第一项正式量化互联网营销公共论坛（非正式交流空间）用户与网络犯罪活动联系的研究。我们的结论是，交叉用户是公共论坛中人口的重要组成部分，尽管他们迄今为止一直被忽视，但必须考虑他们在生态系统中的聚合效应。
英文摘要：
Many activities related to cybercrime operations do not require much secrecy, such as developing websites or translating texts. This research provides indications that many users of a popular public internet marketing forum have connections to cybercrime. It does so by investigating the involvement in cybercrime of a population of users interested in internet marketing, both at a micro and macro scale. The research starts with a case study of three users confirmed to be involved in cybercrime and their use of the public forum where users share information about online advertising. It provides a first glimpse that some business with cybercrime connection is being conducted in the clear. The study then pans out to investigate the forum population's ties with cybercrime by finding crossover users, who are users from the public forum who also comment on cybercrime forums. The cybercrime forums on which they discuss are analyzed and crossover users' strength of participation is reported. Also, to assess if they represent a sub-group of the forum population, their posting behavior on the public forum is compared with that of non-crossover users. This blend of analyses shows that (i) a minimum of 7.2% of the public forum population are crossover users that have ties with cybercrime forums; (ii) their participation in cybercrime forums is limited; and (iii) their posting behavior is relatively indistinguishable from that of non-crossover users. This is the first study to formally quantify how users of an internet marketing public forum, a space for informal exchanges, have ties to cybercrime activities. We conclude that crossover users are a substantial part of the population in the public forum, and, even though they have thus far been overlooked, their aggregated effect in the ecosystem must be considered.
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