XRAD: Ransomware Address Detection Method based on Bitcoin Transaction Relationships
Kai Wang,
Michael Tong,
Jun Pang
et al.
Abstract:Recently, there is a surge in ransomware activities that encrypt users’ sensitive data and demand bitcoins for ransom payments to conceal the criminal’s identity. It is crucial for regulatory agencies to identify as many ransomware addresses as possible in order to accurately estimate the impact of these ransomware activities. However, existing methods for detecting ransomware addresses rely primarily on time-consuming data collection and clustering heuristics, and they face two major issues: 1) the features o… Show more
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