R.S. van Wegberg
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Off-the-shelf, easy-to-deploy phishing kits are believed to lower the threshold for criminal entrepreneurs going phishing. That is, the practice of harvesting user credentials by tricking victims into disclosing these on fraudulent websites. But, how do these kits impact the phis
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Dark net markets are a competitive environment. As these anonymous markets enable criminals to trade illicit goods or services, this causes vendors to operate under pseudonyms, rather than real-world identities. The constant battle between market admins and law enforcement makes
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Cybercriminal entrepreneurs on online anonymous markets rely on security mechanisms to thwart investigators in at- tributing their illicit activities. Earlier work indicates that – despite the high-risk criminal context – cybercriminals may turn to poor security practices due to
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The COVID-19 pandemic introduced novel incentives for adversaries to exploit the state of turmoil. As we have witnessed with the increase in for instance phishing attacks and domain name registrations piggybacking the COVID-19 brand name. In this paper, we perform an analysis at
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Many scientific studies and industry reports have observed the emergence of so-called cybercrime-as-a-service. The idea is that specialized suppliers in the underground economy cater to criminal entrepreneurs in need of certain capabilities – substituting specialized technical kn
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Many cybercriminal entrepreneurs lack the skills and techniques to provision certain parts of their business model, leading them to outsource these parts to specialized criminal vendors. Online anonymous markets, from Silk Road to AlphaBay, have been used to search for these prod
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Online anonymous markets have been around since early 2011 and are aprominent part of today’s cybercrime ecosystem. Their popularity as markets inillicit goods has steadily grown over the years. With the rise ofmarkets like Silk Road, similar marketplaces came into existence wher
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Researchers have observed the increasing commoditization of cybercrime, that is, the offering of capabilities, services, and resources as commodities by specialized suppliers in the underground economy. Commoditization enables outsourcing, thus lowering entry barriers for aspirin
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Bitcoin money laundering: mixed results?
An explorative study on money laundering of cybercrime proceeds using bitcoin
Purpose: This paper aims to shed light into money laundering using bitcoin. Digital payment methods are increasingly used by criminals to launder money obtained through cybercrime. As many forms of cybercrime are motivated by profit, a solid cash-out strategy is required to ensur
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Uit de schaduw
Perspectieven voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar dark markets
In this article the authors present the lessons learned from previous research efforts into dark markets. First the important features of dark markets are discussed, i.e. anonymity and trust, as well as the question how data on dark markets can be collected. Next, the authors ill
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In the summer of 2017, an international policing effort - named Operation Bayonet - led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) targeted two prominent online anonymous markets. On the one hand, the FBI succeeded in the
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Een gezamenlijke rekening?
Over digitale innovatie en samenwerking in een institutional void
The speed and disruptive character of digital innovations affect social structures and practices faster than institutions can keep up with them. This results in an ‘institutional void’, i.e. a gap between the rules and institutions and their ability and the effectiveness of their
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Discerning Novel Value Chains in Financial Malware
On the Economic Incentives and Criminal Business Models in Financial Malware Schemes
Fraud with online payment services is an ongoing problem, with significant financial-economic and societal impact. One of the main modus operandi is financial malware that compromises consumer and corporate devices, thereby potentially undermining the security of critical fina ...
Contributed
Fighting Child Sexual Abuse Material better together
A stakeholder central review of the government policies
This study aims to make recommendations about how the Internet can be more thoroughly cleaned of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), focusing on the Dutch government policies. In the past years, several organizations, including the European Commission, called out the Netherlands
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Shift Happens: Digital Transformation in the Humanitarian Sector
Towards an actionable assessment framework for Digital Transformation in the humanitarian sector
To provide insight into factors that play a role for DT in the humanitarian sector, a combination of literature and expert interviews was used to identify relevant criteria for the humanitarian sector. In accordance with prevailing literature, these factors have been categorised
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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. Theref
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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
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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 d
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Dit rapport is geschreven in het kader van de tweede fase van het vak ’Bachelor-eindproject’ van de bacheloropleiding Technische Bestuurskunde aan de Technische Universiteit Delft. Het rapport is geschreven naar aanleiding van het issue-paper dat ik voor de eerste fase van dit pr
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