ABSTRACT:
The online market for stolen data creates unique networks via comments or other relations between various players. The available information serves as a valuable resource to apply social network (SNA) methods to assess offender networks. These methods focus not only on the players but on the connections between the players, and imply that the transfer of information in the market demonstrates key associations between actors. SNA methods allow for the identification of key players on a network and can be useful for law enforcement to develop targeted takedown strategies of important dark networks. Additionally, it may provide a limited predictive capacity to identify key-players before any arrests have been made.Read more...
