The Art of Cybercrime Community Research
The Art of Cybercrime Community Research
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DOI：
10.1145/3639362
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发表时间：
2024-01
影响因子：
16.6
通讯作者：
Jack Hughes;Sergio Pastrana;Alice Hutchings;Sadia Afroz;Sagar Samtani;Weifeng Li;Ericsson Santana Marin
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作者：
Jack Hughes;Sergio Pastrana;Alice Hutchings;Sadia Afroz;Sagar Samtani;Weifeng Li;Ericsson Santana Marin
在过去十年中，网络犯罪大幅上升。一个关键因素是网上网络犯罪社区的扩散，行为者在其中交易产品和服务，并相互学习。因此，了解这些社区的运作和行为是非常有趣的，他们已经在多个学科中探索了不同的，往往是相当新颖的方法。本调查探讨了该领域固有的挑战以及研究人员用来理解这一领域的方法。我们注意到，在许多情况下，网络犯罪研究与其说是一门科学，不如说是一门艺术。我们强调了良好的实践，并为未来的网络犯罪社区学者提出了一系列建议，包括采取措施核实和验证结果，建立隐私和道德研究实践，以及减轻地面真相数据的挑战。
In the last decade, cybercrime has risen considerably. One key factor is the proliferation of online cybercrime communities, where actors trade products and services, and also learn from each other. Accordingly, understanding the operation and behavior of these communities is of great interest, and they have been explored across multiple disciplines with different, often quite novel, approaches. This survey explores the challenges inherent to the field and the methodological approaches researchers used to understand this space. We note that, in many cases, cybercrime research is more of an art than a science. We highlight the good practices and propose a list of recommendations for future cybercrime community scholars, including taking steps to verify and validate results, establishing privacy and ethical research practices, and mitigating the challenge of ground truth data.