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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

Ways law enforcement, the private sector, and the public fight Dark Web drug markets

The development and accessibility of anonymization tools, the emergence of a new tech-savvy generation, the development and accessibility of hidden drug markets, the evolution of cryptocurrencies, and—most importantly—the continued global demand for illicit drugs are all expected to contribute to the exponential growth of drug markets. The value of Dark Web drug marketplaces and the incentives to engage in supply are factors why drug markets will continue to expand. Efforts to create alternative, risk-free (or low-risk) transaction chains will continue to be driven by the criminalization of the trade. This section highlights the major approaches that are being used by law enforcement, the private sector, and the community to identify and stop drug trafficking on the Dark Web:

Figure 3.4 – Modes of detection and intervention

Figure 3.4 – Modes of detection and intervention

Drug activity conducted...