Research areas specific research areas to be investigated will include:

• Disposition and nature of cybercrime groups
• Botnet behaviour and prevention
• Emergence of “Crimeware”
• Customer behaviour with phishing emails
• Spamming tools and countermeasures
• Mapping the phishing networks and support structure
• Economics of phishing and the phishing marketplace
• Preventative measures against phishing for ISPs and regulatory agencies
• Automated phishing email detection and classification

CRL@mq has a number of publications, and sources of funding. Details of our past publications and research funding are listed in the sidebar.