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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

Child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation terms

The Dark Web is the perfect sanctuary for child abusers. Sites such as Lolita City, Hard Candy, Jailbait, Love Zone, PedoEmpire, Kindergarten Porn, and The Family Album allow pedophiles to connect, share fetishes, practice child abuse techniques, and, most disturbing, exchange detailed methods on ways of finding, procuring, and seducing, and engaging in violent sexual acts with minors. The previous websites demonstrate thousands of producers of child exploitation material who rape and brutalize children for the satisfaction of pedophiles all over the globe (Murali, 2019). The volume of these sick activities is extraordinary and beyond any human imagination.

Despite the fact that Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is a worldwide problem, the United States continues to be one of the top producers of child abuse content with a very large user base. More than 150,000 children are trafficked per year for sex by pimps in the United...