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...