A Social Network Analysis and Comparison of Six Dark Web Forums
A Social Network Analysis and Comparison of Six Dark Web Forums
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10.1109/eurospw51379.2020.00071
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2020-09
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Ildiko Pete;Jack Hughes;Y. Chua;Maria Bada
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作者：
Ildiko Pete;Jack Hughes;Y. Chua;Maria Bada
随着平台监控和监管的加强，有犯罪利益的社区正在转向黑暗网络，其中托管着从告密和隐私到毒品、恐怖主义和黑客攻击的各种内容。利用来自六个黑暗网络论坛的讨论后数据，我们构建了六个互动图，并使用社会网络分析工具来研究这些地下社区。我们观察每个网络的结构，以突出结构模式，并通过网络中心性分析确定重要节点。我们的发现表明，在大多数论坛中，一些成员的联系程度很高，形成了枢纽，而大多数成员的联系数量较少。在检查中心节点的发帖活动时，我们发现大多数中心节点在带有更广泛主题的子论坛上发帖，如一般性讨论和教程。这些成员在不同的论坛中扮演不同的角色，在每个论坛中，我们确定了不同的用户配置文件。
With increasing monitoring and regulation by platforms, communities with criminal interests are moving to the dark web, which hosts content ranging from whistle-blowing and privacy, to drugs, terrorism, and hacking. Using post discussion data from six dark web forums we construct six interaction graphs and use social network analysis tools to study these underground communities. We observe the structure of each network to highlight structural patterns and identify nodes of importance through network centrality analysis. Our findings suggest that in the majority of the forums some members are highly connected and form hubs, while most members have a lower number of connections. When examining the posting activities of central nodes we found that most of the central nodes post in sub-forums with broader topics, such as general discussions and tutorials. These members play different roles in the different forums, and within each forum we identified diverse user profiles.