SANS research paper: Tracking online counterfeiters

"Tracking online counterfeiters" is a GIAC Gold paper which has been published recently in the SANS reading room. This is a side project I am working on for a while. I discovered this topic while investigating the reasons of websites being compromised. And I become addicted to this new field which converge with the security field I was investigating originally.

Screenshots of 4 FAKE websites related with the online counterfeiting.

What I did discover as well is that this field is being massively underestimated by different industries, especially within the traditional security field.

"InfoSec also has a tendency to obsess over the technical sophistication of an attack instead of the impact it has on real people" (Stamos 2016) 

The context of this online fraud is explained in the paper. The links with the underground economy is showed. And the main tactics of the online counterfeiters are unveiled. Finally with all the information collected I detail the steps to create a new intelligence feed which we could use in many scenarios. Also 3 examples of scenarios where to apply this new intel are given just in case you are out of ideas.

Hope you enjoying reading the paper and do not hesitate in contact me with any question related to this topic.