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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2015.25.3.627

A study on the identity theft detection model in MMORPGs  

Kim, Hana (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
Kwak, Byung Il (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
Kim, Huy Kang (Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.25, no.3, 2015 , pp. 627-637 More about this Journal
Abstract
As game item trading becomes more popular with the rapid growth of online game market, the market for trading game items by cash has increased up to KRW 1.6 trillion. Thanks to this active market, it has been easy to turn these items and game money into real money. As a result, some malicious users have often attempted to steal other players' rare and valuable game items by using their account. Therefore, this study proposes a detection model through analysis on these account thieves' behavior in the Massive Multiuser Online Role Playing Game(MMORPG). In case of online game identity theft, the thieves engage in economic activities only with a goal of stealing game items and game money. In this pattern are found particular sequences such as item production, item sales and acquisition of game money. Based on this pattern, this study proposes a detection model. This detection model-based classification revealed 86 percent of accuracy. In addition, trading patterns when online game identity was stolen were analyzed in this study.
Keywords
Identity theft; Online game security; User behavior analysis; MMORPG;
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