Affiliation:
1. Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio, Milan (MI)
2. Università degli studi di Milano, Via Comelico, Milan (MI)
3. Politecnico di Milano, Trend Micro Inc., Via Ponzio, Milan (MI)
Abstract
The significant growth of banking fraud, fueled by the underground economy of malware, has raised the need for effective detection systems. Therefore, in the last few years, banks have upgraded their security to protect transactions from fraud. State-of-the-art solutions detect fraud as deviations from customers’ spending habits. To the best of our knowledge, almost all existing approaches do not provide an in-depth model’s granularity and security analysis against elusive attacks.
In this article, we examine Banksealer, a decision support system for banking fraud analysis that evaluates the influence on detection performance of the granularity at which spending habits are modeled and its security against evasive attacks. First, we compare user-centric modeling, which builds a model for each user, with system-centric modeling, which builds a model for the entire system, from the point of view of detection performance. Then, we assess the robustness of Banksealer against malicious attackers that are aware of the structure of the models in use. To this end, we design and implement a proof-of-concept attack tool that performs mimicry attacks, emulating a sophisticated attacker that cloaks frauds to avoid detection. We experimentally confirm the feasibility of such attacks, their cost, and the effort required by an attacker in order to perform them. In addition, we discuss possible countermeasures.
We provide a comprehensive evaluation on a large real-world dataset obtained from one of the largest Italian banks.
Funder
Lombardy region and Secure Network S.r.l
European Union H2020 Programme
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,General Computer Science
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