RT Journal Article
T1 TorrentGuard: Stopping scam and malware distribution in the BitTorrent ecosystem
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Rubén
A1 Kryczka, Michal
A1 González Sánchez, Roberto
A1 Cuevas Rumín, Ángel
A1 Azcorra Saloña, Arturo
AB In this paper we conduct a large scale measurement study in order to analyse the fake content publishing phenomenon in the BitTorrent ecosystem. Our results reveal that fake content represents an important portion (35%) of those files shared in BitTorrent and just a few tens of users are responsible for 90% of this content. Furthermore, more than 99% of the analysed fake files are linked to either malware or scam websites. This creates a serious threat for the BitTorrent ecosystem. To address this issue, we present a new tool named TorrentGuard for the early detection of fake content. Based on our evaluation this tool may prevent end users from downloading more than 35 millions fake files per year. This could help to reduce the number of computer infections and scams suffered by BitTorrent users. TorrentGuard is already available and it can be accessed through both a webpage or a Vuze plugin.
PB Elsevier
SN 1389-1286
YR 2014
FD 2014-02-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10016/37396
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10016/37396
LA eng
NO The research leading to these results has been partially funded by the European Union's FP7 Program under the project eCOUSIN (318398), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the eeCONTENT project (TEC2011-29688-C02-02), and the Regional Government of Madrid under the MEDIANET project (S2009/TIC-1468).
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