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Combating Crime on the Dark Web

By : Nearchos Nearchou
Book Image

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’ ecosystem

The increasingly sophisticated, user-friendly, and impersonal global network of drug markets make the illegal drug trade a dynamic area that is subject to fast changes, with marketplaces appearing and disappearing on a regular basis. These drug markets host hundreds—or, in some cases, thousands—of individuals who sell drugs, commonly known as vendors. The Dark Web offers significant anonymity for both vendors and buyers, who use digital currencies such as Bitcoin to process transactions.

The first drug transaction on the internet is believed that it took place during the 1970s. According to reports, it involved students who exchanged cannabis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University. Since that year, drugs have been sold digitally in both small and large volumes. In the late 1990s, discussion forums and groups, related to the manufacture and use of drugs, have also appeared online. One of the most widely...