Publication detail

Shedding Light on Monopoly: Temporal Analysis of Drug Trades

DOLEJŠKA, D. VESELÝ, V. PLUSKAL, J. KOUTENSKÝ, M.

Original Title

Shedding Light on Monopoly: Temporal Analysis of Drug Trades

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Dark marketplaces pioneered a new way to monetise illicit goods. A unique combination of technologies (such as overlay networks, end-to-end encryption, and cryptocurrencies) guarantees anonymity for dark marketplace users (including operators, vendors, and buyers). We have developed a tool for monitoring and investigating dark marketplaces (namely, collecting and processing evidence directly from their websites), which we used for real-time detection of various illicit activities. This paper presents a well-described and structured dataset that contains high-frequency web-scraped information from Monopoly Market (one of the most popular dark marketplaces in 2021). The evaluation demonstrates how high-resolution temporal analysis can reveal mission-critical information about the frequency of trades, vendor activities, and the drug market.

Keywords

dark market, drug trade, illegal trade, purchase detection, temporal data set, market analytics, web scraping, dataset, crypto, cryptocurrency, dark marketplace, cryptomarket

Authors

DOLEJŠKA, D.; VESELÝ, V.; PLUSKAL, J.; KOUTENSKÝ, M.

Released

30. 9. 2022

Publisher

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Location

Boston, MA

ISBN

978-3-031-36573-7

Book

13th EAI International Conference, ICDF2C 2022, Boston, MA, November 16-18, 2022, Proceedings

Edition

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

ISBN

1867-8211

Periodical

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Number

508

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

151

Pages to

168

Pages count

18

URL

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-36574-4_9

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT180571,
  author="Daniel {Dolejška} and Vladimír {Veselý} and Jan {Pluskal} and Michal {Koutenský}",
  title="Shedding Light on Monopoly: Temporal Analysis of Drug Trades",
  booktitle="13th EAI International Conference, ICDF2C 2022, Boston, MA, November 16-18, 2022, Proceedings",
  year="2022",
  series="Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering",
  journal="Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering",
  number="508",
  pages="151--168",
  publisher="Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
  address="Boston, MA",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-031-36574-4\{_}9",
  isbn="978-3-031-36573-7",
  issn="1867-8211",
  url="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-36574-4_9"
}