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Second, our research proves that a significant amount of websites within China’s part of the Web contain some kind of malicious content: our measurements reveal that about 1.49% of the examined sites contain malicious content that tries to attack the visitor’s browser. First, we show that the amount of virtual assets traded on this underground market is huge. We substantiate our model with the help of measurement results within the Chinese Web. In this chapter, we provide a detailed overview of this underground black market and present a model to describe the market. In fact, a real underground black market with thousands of parti cipants has developed, which brings together malicious users who trade exploits, malware, virtual assets, stolen credentials, and more. Driven by the economic profits, cyber criminals are on the rise and use the Web to exploit innocent users. The World Wide Web gains more and more popularity within China with more than 1.31 million websites on the Chinese Web in June 2007.