In this talk, we highlight several ways that hackers exploit the web and social media to propagate malware, infect users, and compromise computers. We also present the efforts of our group to measure, detect and stop these activities. Specifically, we discuss our work on (a) studying spam and its supporting infrastructure, (b) detecting malicious websites, and (c) identifying typosquatting sites, an interesting parasitic behavior.

Then we show how we transitioned some of these technologies into our startup StopTheHacker.com which got sold in Oct 2013 and discuss our experience from this effort.