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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

Drug Markets on the Dark Web

The everyday use of the World Wide Web has allowed an easy engagement with various global services. For example, electronic commerce (e-commerce) is a highly developing sector with an estimated 2.3 trillion US dollars in worldwide sales per year. In spite of the countless legal tangible products and services offered by vendors and manufacturers, illegal platforms have also expanded online. The most worrying for international authorities is the Dark Web, and specifically the markets that exist on this hidden part of the internet. Dark markets (also known as DNMs) are commercial websites on the Dark Web that work via networks such as TOR, I2P, and Freenet. Precisely, the Dark Web consists of markets that have to do with drugs, human trafficking, firearms, child sexual abuse material, assassinations, cyber-arms, counterfeit products, and other disturbing activities. In the last few years, law enforcement authorities and police agents have put massive efforts...