Cognitive systems for dark web cyber delinquent association malignant data crawling: A review

R Rawat, V Mahor, JD Álvarez, F Ch - Handbook of Research on …, 2023 - igi-global.com
The limits of user visibility have been exceeded by the internet. The “dark web” or “dark net”
refers to certain unknown portions of the web that cannot be found using standard search …

Malevolent information crawling mechanism for forming structured illegal organisations in hidden networks

R Rawat, S Gupta, S Sivaranjani, OK Cu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - igi-global.com
Terrorist groups like ISIS have made considerable use of the dark web (DW) to carry out
their malicious objectives such as spreading propaganda, recruiting and radicalizing new …

[HTML][HTML] Crafting the techno-functional blocks for Metaverse-A review and research agenda

A Johri, A Sayal, N Chaithra, J Jha, N Aggarwal… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The" Metaverse," a term popularized by Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash, has been
discussed in the science fiction community for decades, but technological advancements …

Insights and caveats from mining local and global temporal motifs in cryptocurrency transaction networks

NA Arnold, P Zhong, CT Ba, B Steer, R Mondragon… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Distributed ledger technologies have opened up a wealth of fine-grained transaction data
from cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. This allows research into problems like …

Circulation of a digital community currency

CES Mattsson, T Criscione, FW Takes - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Circulation is the characteristic feature of successful currency systems, from community
currencies to cryptocurrencies to national currencies. In this paper, we propose a network …

Vaccines and more: The response of Dark Web marketplaces to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

A Bracci, M Nadini, M Aliapoulios, D McCoy, I Gray… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Early analyses revealed that dark web marketplaces (DWMs) started offering COVID-19
related products (eg, masks and COVID-19 tests) as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic …

Macroscopic properties of buyer–seller networks in online marketplaces

A Bracci, J Boehnke, A ElBahrawy, N Perra… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Online marketplaces are the main engines of legal and illegal e-commerce, yet their
empirical properties are poorly understood due to the absence of large-scale data. We …

Identifying key players in dark web marketplaces through Bitcoin transaction networks

EF Dos Reis, A Teytelboym, A ElBahrawy… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Dark web marketplaces have been a significant outlet for illicit trade, serving millions of
users worldwide for over a decade. However, not all users are the same. This paper aims to …

A novel cross-domain adaptation framework for unsupervised criminal jargon detection via pre-trained contextual embedding of darknet corpus

L Ke, P Xiao, X Chen, S Yu, X Chen, H Wang - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
As the regulation on the surface web becomes more stringent, criminals are gradually
turning to the darknet markets for illicit operations. Moderating and studying the content on …

Early warning signals for predicting cryptomarket vendor success using dark net forum networks

HD Boekhout, AAJ Blokland, FW Takes - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
In this work we focus on identifying key players in dark net cryptomarkets that facilitate online
trade of illegal goods. Law enforcement aims to disrupt criminal activity conducted through …