Quantifying Dark Web Shops’ Illicit Revenue

The Dark Web, primarily Tor, has evolved to protect user privacy and freedom of speech through anonymous routing. However, Tor also facilitates cybercriminal actors who utilize it for illicit activities. Quantifying the size and nature of such activity is challenging, as Tor complicates indexing by design. This paper proposes a methodology to...

Supporting forensic investigators on exploring web forums through Interactive Topic Modeling

Forums on the Web have become a highly popular platform for malicious activities as recent technologies allow to preserve anonymity. Forensic investigators are more and more interested to use these forums on the so-called Dark Web as their source of intelligence. Exploring the forums one by one is too time-consuming and it requires much effort...