Anonymous trading on the dark online marketplace: An exploratory study

P Vyas, G Vyas, A Chauhan, R Rawat… - … Intelligence for the …, 2022 - igi-global.com
Advancement in technology provides numerous solutions to not only legitimate businesses
but to illegal trades as well. Selling substances, drugs, and prohibited merchandise and …

Systematic literature review (SLR) on social media and the digital transformation of drug trafficking on darkweb

R Rawat, V Mahor, M Chouhan, K Pachlasiya… - … Conference on Network …, 2022 - Springer
A proposed study provides an annotated list of SLR (Systematic literature Review) for use by
dark web (DW) researchers, cyber experts, and security agencies in the investigation and …

A market in dream: the rapid development of anonymous cybercrime

G Zhou, J Zhuge, Y Fan, K Du, S Lu - Mobile Networks and Applications, 2020 - Springer
In this paper we have conducted a comprehensive measurement and analysis on the Dream
market, an anonymous online market that uses cryptocurrency as transaction currency. We …

A qualitative mapping of Darkweb marketplaces

D Georgoulias, JM Pedersen, M Falch… - … on Electronic Crime …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Darkweb marketplaces have evolved greatly since the rise of the Silk Road in 2011, the first
platform of its kind, and have become a highly profitable underground trading ecosystem …

Trust factors in the social figuration of online drug trafficking: A qualitative content analysis on a darknet market

Á Szigeti, R Frank, T Kiss - Journal of Contemporary Criminal …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The rise in illicit drug trafficking on darknet markets (DNMs) was boosted by those
restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to put this trend into …

Tor marketplaces exploratory data analysis: the drugs case

A Celestini, G Me, M Mignone - … -The Security Challenges of the Connected …, 2016 - Springer
The anonymous marketplaces ecosystem represents a new channel for black market/goods
and services, offering a huge variety of illegal items. For many darknet marketplaces, the …

A mysterious and darkside of the darknet: A qualitative study

A Anjum, DC Kaur, S Kondapalli, MA Hussain… - Webology, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Nowadays, the darknet or dark web has become one of the most booming topics in context
with cyber security. Several research studies and current reports conclude that how the …

Evolution of dark web threat analysis and detection: A systematic approach

S Nazah, S Huda, J Abawajy, MM Hassan - Ieee Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dark Web is one of the most challenging and untraceable mediums adopted by the cyber
criminals, terrorists, and state-sponsored spies to fulfil their illicit motives. Cyber-crimes …

Semi-supervised cyber threat identification in dark net markets: A transductive and deep learning approach

M Ebrahimi, JF Nunamaker Jr… - Journal of Management …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Dark Net Marketplaces (DNMs), online selling platforms on the dark web,
constitute a major component of the underground economy. Due to the anonymity and …

Measuring dark web marketplaces via Bitcoin transactions: From birth to independence

N Hiramoto, Y Tsuchiya - Forensic Science International: Digital …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study measures the evolution of the anonymous marketplaces Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0,
Agora, Evolution, Nucleus, Abraxas, and AlphaBay, which were the seven leading and most …