Clustering Banks Based on the Offenders Targeting Them
Banks are all in the business of protecting savings, loans and helping invest. As a result, banks commonly share many practices and tools. In this blog post, we demonstrate how malicious actors tend to target the same group of financial institutions. This could be the result of malicious actors reusing the same techniques on […]
Are Online Offenders Quitters?
In a podcast I was listening to recently, offenders who had just gotten out of jail were discussing how everything in life is so difficult. Some may think that dealing drugs or stealing cars makes for an easy living with little work and a big payday. The harsh reality is that competition is fierce when […]
Legalizing Cannabis in Canada: An Impact on the Cryptomarket Black Markets?
Canada went through a historic transformation on October 17th. On that date, Canada became the first Western industrialized country to legalize recreational cannabis (RC). Given that an estimated 2 million Canadians use recreational cannabis, the legalization of RC removes much stress of legal sanctions. It will also likely lead to a shift in how police […]
Analyzing Dark Web Credit Card Fraud Revenue
Dark web credit card fraud may seem like a lucrative business. Within the last year, there have been two cases in the U.S. of credit card fraud schemes. Earlier this year, a New York man pled guilty to a credit card scheme which made over $1.5 million in fraudulent purchases, and in which some participants […]
Everything Changes So Fast
Darknet marketplace vendors sell of some truly unique items. They offer, of course, plenty of ‘get rich quick’ schemes and services such as the one below. This ad is for a sports betting tipping service. It was posted by someone who has “connections with top tipsters on the world” and that specializes in “EU / […]
Online illicit markets
The darknet provides a relatively anonymous environment in which to buy and sell illicit goods and services. Transactions take place in illicit markets that operate in a similar fashion to eBay and Amazon. The markets invite independent vendors to create profiles and product pages which customers browse. Customers add products to their carts and pay […]
Mapping the darknet
By all accounts, the public internet is a big place. According to some estimates, the public internet now hosts over 1 billion websites. Experts predict that internet users will send or receive in 2019 over 2 zettabytes of data. In common terms, that’s 2 billion terabytes (see figure below). If you can’t see the circle […]
