Our paper explores the use of Large Language Models as mechanisms to translate public hacktivists messages from Russian to English as a way to address all these problems. We show how our method can achieve high-fidelity translations and significantly reduce costs by a factor ranging from 430 to 23,000 compared to a human translator.
Studying Cybercrime is Fun! An Overview of Five Years of Research Surrounding the Geost Botnet
This blog shows how a curious research experiment can lead a student into an interesting cybercrime investigation that contains weird -yet interesting- topics, such as understanding underground attackers, botnets, informal Internet forums, and the economy of encrypting malware-as-a-service.


