Data Acquisition on a Large Darknet Marketplace
York Yannikos, Julian Heeger, Martin Steinebach · Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security · 2022
Darknet marketplaces in the Tor network are popular places to anonymously buy and sell various kinds of illegal goods. Previous research on marketplaces ranged from analyses of type, availability and quality of goods to methods for identifying users. Although many darknet marketplaces exist, their lifespan is usually short, especially for very popular marketplaces that are in focus of law enforcement agencies.