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The Art of Cybercrime-Community Research: Challenges and Methodological Advances

Abstract:

Reviews ethnographic, machine-learning and graph-analytic techniques for studying ransomware-as-a-service marketplaces on Tor. Proposes a mixed-methods protocol that respects ethics while capturing 7.3 M forum posts across 12 languages.

Author:
Moore, Martin R.; Al-Ameen, Mohammed; Bada, Akane
Year:
2024
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MIT Political Science
MIT Political Science
ECIR
GSS