Online banking malware ontology

Working paper

Due to the ever increasing popularity of the Internet, institutions are migrating their services to the digital realm. Banks are among the most representative examples: in order to better meet their clients’ requirements, but also to reduce operational costs, online banking platforms were created and their use stimulated. However, the users’ mass adoption to this novel technology without proper awareness campaigns resulted in a large increase of online banking fraud occurrence rates. This poses great challenges to Law Enforcement Agencies dedicated to cybercrime investigation: in addition to personnel skills training, there is an urgent need for new approaches correlating the horizontally sparse and concealed evidence resulted from such offence. As semantic technologies enable the more intelligent use of computer resources regarding data from a specific domain, this paper proposes the creation of an online banking malware investigation ontology.

Authors: Carvalho, R

• Publication status: Not published
• Peer review status: Not peer reviewed
• Publisher: Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security
• Publication date: 2014-01-01
• Edition: Publisher's version
• Language: English
• Subjects: Computing; Cyber Security; Computer security