Organized Cyber Crime: Algorithms and Methods (EPUB)

Law enforcement agencies reports that Organized Criminal Groups are moving more of their activities from traditional crime into the Cyber Domain. Where they form so-called Darknets, whose purpose is to act as marketplaces for illegal material, products, and services. These activities form a part of the Crime-as-a- Service business model, which drives the digital underground economy by providing services that facilitate almost any type of Cyber Crime. The challenge for law enforcement is knowing which entity to target for effectively taking down these network structures. This thesis seeks to use graph-based algorithms and methods to analyze network structures to identify interesting and relevant individuals within such networks. More specifically, it proposes Social Network Analysis (SNA) methods for the process of identification of such individuals.