Crime Toolkits: The Current Threats to Web Applications

Ammar Alazab, Jemal Abawajy, Michael Hobbs and Ansam Khraisat

Journal of Information Privacy and Security, 2013, vol. 9, issue 2, 21-39

Abstract: Increasingly, web applications are being developed over the Internet. Securing these web applications is becoming important as they hold critical security features. However, cybercriminals are becoming smarter by developing a crime toolkit, and employing sophisticated techniques to evade detection. These crime toolkits can be used by any person to target Internet users.In this paper, we explore the techniques used in crime toolkits. We present a current state-of-the-art analysis of crime toolkits and focus on attacks against web applications. The crime toolkit techniques are compared with the vulnerability of web applications to help reveal particular behavior such as popular web application vulnerabilities that malicious writers prefer. In addition, we outline the existing protection mechanism, and observe that the possibility for damage is rising, particularly as specialization and scale increase in cybercrime.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/15536548.2013.10845677

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