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Vanity, cracks and malware
2012
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Computer and communications security - CCS '12
Today, a large amount of software products include mechanisms to counter software piracy. However, most protection mechanisms can be easily circumvented by applying software patches (cracks) or license key generators (keygens) with seemingly no financial incentives. Our research shows that the distribution of cracks and keygens not only allows miscreants to generate revenue (e.g. through advertising or malware infections), but it also leads to high risks for the end-users of pirated software.
doi:10.1145/2382196.2382282
dblp:conf/ccs/KammerstetterPW12
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