Whitepapers

One of our key goals at Team Cymru is to share our Internet Security insight and research with the broader Internet community. To this end, from time to time Team Cymru produces whitepapers on topics that we feel will be of value to our partners and that Internet community. Some of these papers are of a sensitive nature and are provided via private channels, but others are suitable for broader distribution, and we have presented them below. Please contact us if you have any questions about these papers, have suggestions for topics we could address in the future, or just to say hi!

New Whitepapers

• Alina & Other POS Malware, Team Cymru, May 2013*

_{* denotes a case study that requires requestor validation}

Archived Whitepapers

• A Criminal Perspective on Exploit Packs, Team Cymru, May 2011
• Malware Infections Market, Team Cymru, September 2010
• Gaming & the Underground Economy, Team Cymru, August 2010
• Criminal Commodities in the Underground Economy, Team Cymru, June 2010
• The PPI Model in the Underground Economy, Team Cymru, May 2010
• The Future of Passports and Money Movement in the Underground Economy, Team Cymru, April 2010
• DDoS Basics, Team Cymru, March 2010
• African Bot Distribution, Team Cymru, March 2010
• Developing Botnets - An Analysis of Recent Activity, Steve Santorelli, January 2010
• DNS Open Recursion, Jerry Martin, July 2009
• Who is looking for your SCADA infrastructure?, Steve Santorelli, March 2009
• Seek and Ye Shall Find (Malware): Be careful what you search for!, Chas Tomlin and Stephen Gill, October 2008
• Incident Response Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Cache Poison Exploit, Team Cymru, Fall 2008
• A Taste of HTTP Botnets, Marcel van den Berg, July 2008
• The Risk of Operating in an Inter-Connected Society, Jerry Dixon, April 2008