3361ea2d59bfaae727ae · It's All About The Benjamins: Fair Trade botnets and incentivizing users to ignore security advice
It's All About The Benjamins: Fair Trade botnets and incentivizing users to ignore security advice
We examine the cost for an attacker to pay users to execute arbitrary code---potentially malware. We created an Amazon's Mechanical Turk task wherein users were asked to download and run for an hour an executable we wrote. While this program was benign
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