Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine

no code implementations • 4 Aug 2020 • Alberto Bracci, Matthieu Nadini, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Damon McCoy, Ian Gray, Alexander Teytelboym, Angela Gallo, Andrea Baronchelli

We reveal how the online shadow economy has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlight the importance of a continuous monitoring of DWMs, especially now that real vaccines are available and in short supply.

Misinformation Computers and Society Social and Information Networks Physics and Society

Towards Automatic Discovery of Cybercrime Supply Chains

no code implementations • 2 Dec 2018 • Rasika Bhalerao, Maxwell Aliapoulios, Ilia Shumailov, Sadia Afroz, Damon McCoy

Our analysis of the automatically generated supply chains demonstrates underlying connections between products and services within these forums.