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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By : Nearchos Nearchou
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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By: Nearchos Nearchou

Overview of this book

In today’s world, the crime-prevention landscape is impossible to navigate. The dark web means new frontiers of combat against bad actors that pop up daily. Everyone from narcotics dealers to human traffickers are exploiting the dark web to evade authorities. If you want to find your feet in this tricky terrain and fight crime on the dark web, take this comprehensive, easy-to-follow cyber security guide with you. Combating Crime on the Dark Web contains everything you need to be aware of when tackling the world of the dark web. Step by step, you’ll gain acumen in the tactics that cybercriminals are adopting and be equipped with the arsenal of strategies that are available to you as a cybersecurity specialist. This cyber security book ensures that you are well acquainted with all the latest techniques to combat dark web criminality. After a primer on cybercrime and the history of the dark web, you’ll dive right into the main domains of the dark web ecosystem, reaching a working understanding of how drug markets, child pornography, and human trafficking operate. Once well-versed with the functioning of criminal groups, you’ll be briefed on the most effective tools and methods being employed by law enforcement, tech companies, and others to combat such crimes, developing both a toolkit and a mindset that can help you stay safe from such criminal activities and can be applied in any sector or domain. By the end of this book, you’ll be well prepared to begin your pushback against the criminal elements of the dark web.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introduction to Cybercrime and Dark Web’s History
4
Part 2:The Dark Web’s Ecosystem and Major Crimes
9
Part 3:Efforts to Combat Crimes on the Dark Web

The use of cryptocurrencies on the Dark Web

An anonymous digital currency has been a concept since at least 2008. The domain name bitcoin.org was registered on August 18, 2008. An article titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System appeared later that year, on October 31, posted to a cryptography mailing list. A P2P network can be used to construct a system for electronic transactions without depending on a central authority, according to a paper written by a person using the supposed pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The first Bitcoins were mined by Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, giving rise to the Bitcoin (BTC) technology (Bernard and Kay, 2021).

Introduction to cryptocurrencies

One of the most lasting mysteries of Bitcoin is the real identity of its founder. Over the years, several people have said that it is Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s founder remains unknown until this day, and little is known about him. It is believed that his last email communication was in April...