Crime scene re-investigation: A postmortem analysis of game account stealers' behaviors

Hana Kim; Seongil Yang; Huy Kang Kim

doi:10.1109/NetGames.2017.7991540

Crime scene re-investigation: A postmortem analysis of game account stealers' behaviors

Hana Kim, Seongil Yang, Huy Kang Kim

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Abstract

As item trading becomes more popular, users can change their game items or money into real money more easily. At the same time, hackers turn their eyes on stealing other users game items or money because it is much easier to earn money than traditional gold-farming by running game bots. Game companies provide various security measures to block accounttheft attempts, but many security measures on the user-side are disregarded by users because of lack of usability. In this study, we propose a server-side account theft detection system base on action sequence analysis to protect game users from malicious hackers. We tested this system in the real Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). By analyzing users full game play log, our system can find the particular action sequences of hackers with high accuracy. Also, we can trace where the victim accounts stolen money goes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NetGames 2017 - 15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509050383
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NetGames.2017.7991540
Publication status	Published - 2017 Jul 25
Event	15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2017 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China Duration: 2017 Jun 22 → 2017 Jun 23

Publication series

Name	Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games
ISSN (Print)	2156-8138
ISSN (Electronic)	2156-8146

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Other	15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2017
Country/Territory	Taiwan, Province of China
City	Taipei
Period	17/6/22 → 17/6/23

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Keywords

Account theft
MMORPG
Sequence analysis
User behavior analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Crime scene re-investigation: A postmortem analysis of game account stealers' behaviors. / Kim, Hana; Yang, Seongil; Kim, Huy Kang.
NetGames 2017 - 15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games. IEEE Computer Society, 2017. p. 1-6 7991540 (Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kim, H, Yang, S & Kim, HK 2017, Crime scene re-investigation: A postmortem analysis of game account stealers' behaviors. in NetGames 2017 - 15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games., 7991540, Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1-6, 15th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games, NetGames 2017, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China, 17/6/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/NetGames.2017.7991540

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Crime scene re-investigation: A postmortem analysis of game account stealers' behaviors

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