ABSTRACT
Cybercrime is increasing in scale, impact (number and types of attacks, number of victims and economic damage), scope, and sophistication. “Crime-as-a-Service” business model drives digital underground economy by providing a wide range of commercial services, facilitating almost any type of cybercrime, extracting, at the moment, between 15% and 20% of the value created by the Internet and stimulating its commercialization, innovation, and further sophistication. Criminals are freely able to procure services such as the rental of botnets [1] or just simply create a variation of their own by reusing existing code [2].
