Risky Business: Analysing the security behaviour of cybercriminals active on a darknet market

Cybercrime thrives and online anonymous markets, or darknet markets, play an important role in the cybercriminal ecosystem. Vendors active on darknet markets invest in security mechanisms to compromise the availability or usefulness of evidence to Law Enforcement Agencies. Therefore, difficulties arise in linking identities or machines to...

From Zero To Hero: Identifying Vendor Characteristics that Impact Vendor Performance on Darknet Markets

The thesis reconstructed and analysed transaction-level data of a particular darknet market. Moreover, the thesis reveals what kind of vendors are active on this darknet market, based on their characteristics. Finally, this research identified what the relative importance is of different vendor characteristics for vendor performance on darknet...

Measuring Darknet Markets

Background: A lot of scientists have tried to shed light on dark web markets. They did this by scraping these marketplaces over a period of time and describe what they were seeing. However, the methods used to measure these markets were never validated before. Research goal: This research will identify and validate the methods that are used in...

Understanding the Topological Structure and Semantic Content of Darknet Communities

For over a decade Darknet has been gaining tremendous popularity proportional to the growing concerns fostered by lack of anonymity and privacy on the World Wide Web. In the recent years, illegitimate use of the Darknet has resulted into investigation in the research community that is analogous to a domino effect further adding to popularity of...