SENSEI: Scraper for ENhanced AnalySis to Evaluate Illicit Trends

Daniel De Pascale*, Giuseppe Cascavilla, Damian A. Tamburri, Willem Jan Van Den Heuvel

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Abstract

Over the last years, we faced an exponential growth of illegal online market services in the Dark Web, making it easier than ever before of acquiring illicit goods online via a simple service interaction. To study and understand this emerging illegal services economy, we developed a trend analysis and (dark-)web services monitoring tool: SENSEI, which stands for ‘Scraper for ENhanced analySis to Evaluate Illicit trends’. SENSEI extracts specific service transaction trends and analyses the human behaviours behind, to produce symmetric insights on specific service transaction habits from both customers and vendors on the Dark Web. Moreover, a trend analysis tool is provided to discover and typify relationships among different criminal activities and hence provide evidence and support investigation activities and Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) detecting criminal operations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2022 Workshops - ASOCA, AI-PA, FMCIoT, WESOACS 2022, Proceedings
EditorsJavier Troya, Raffaela Mirandola, Elena Navarro, Andrea Delgado, Sergio Segura, Pablo Fernández, Guadalupe Ortiz, Cesare Pautasso, Christian Zirpins, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages374-383
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783031265068
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
EventWorkshops on ASOCA, AI-PA, FMCIoT, WESOACS 2022, held in Conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2022 - Seville, Spain
Duration: 29 Nov 20222 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13821 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceWorkshops on ASOCA, AI-PA, FMCIoT, WESOACS 2022, held in Conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2022
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySeville
Period29/11/222/12/22

Keywords

  • Dark Web
  • Illicit goods
  • LEAs
  • Trend analysis

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