" When the Code becomes a Crime Scene" Towards Dark Web Threat Intelligence with Software Quality Metrics

G Cascavilla, G Catolino, F Ebert… - 2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing growth of illegal online activities in the so-called dark web—that is, the
hidden collective of internet sites only accessible by a specialized web browsers—has …

Harvesting Large Textual and Multimedia Data to Detect Illegal Activities on Dark Web Marketplaces

G Chatzimarkaki, S Karagiorgou… - … Conference on Big …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the last decades, the dark web has become the ground for criminal activities,
enabling for illegal content sharing, as well as marketplaces selling drugs and firearms. The …

Exploring and identifying malicious sites in dark web using machine learning

Y Kawaguchi, S Ozawa - … 2019, Sydney, NSW, Australia, December 12 …, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, various web-based attacks such as Drive-by-Download attacks are
becoming serious. To protect legitimate users, it is important to collect information on …

Threat Miner-A Text Analysis Engine for Threat Identification Using Dark Web Data

N Deguara, J Arshad, A Paracha… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cyber threats continue to grow with novel methods to attack computing systems, highlighting
the need for sophisticated mechanisms and techniques to protect against such dynamic …

Illicit darkweb classification via natural-language processing: Classifying illicit content of webpages based on textual information

G Cascavilla, G Catolino, M Sangiovanni - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.04944, 2023 - arxiv.org
This work aims at expanding previous works done in the context of illegal activities
classification, performing three different steps. First, we created a heterogeneous dataset of …

Detecting malicious URLs using machine learning techniques

F Vanhoenshoven, G Nápoles, R Falcon… - 2016 IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The World Wide Web supports a wide range of criminal activities such as spam-advertised e-
commerce, financial fraud and malware dissemination. Although the precise motivations …

Threats from the dark: a review over dark web investigation research for cyber threat intelligence

R Basheer, B Alkhatib - Journal of Computer Networks and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
From proactive detection of cyberattacks to the identification of key actors, analyzing
contents of the Dark Web plays a significant role in deterring cybercrimes and understanding …

Detection of malicious webpages using deep learning

AK Singh, N Goyal - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Malicious Webpages have been a serious threat on Internet for the past few years. As per
the latest Google Transparency reports, they continue to be top ranked amongst online …

Einspect: Evolution-guided analysis and detection of malicious web pages

B Eshete, A Villafiorita, K Weldemariam… - 2013 IEEE 37th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most existing work to thwart malicious web pages capture maliciousness via discriminative
artifacts, learn a model, and detect by leveraging static and/or dynamic analysis …

Classification of illegal activities on the dark web

S He, Y He, M Li - Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The strong anonymity and hard-to-track mechanisms of the dark web provide shelter for
illegal activities. The illegal content on the dark web is diverse and frequently updated …