Dark Web Marketplaces and COVID-19: before the vaccine.
Bitcoin
COVID-19
Dark Web Marketplaces
Shadow economy
Journal
EPJ data science
ISSN: 2193-1127
Titre abrégé: EPJ Data Sci
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101686785
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
21
08
2020
accepted:
05
01
2021
entrez:
27
1
2021
pubmed:
28
1
2021
medline:
28
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the demand for goods and services worldwide. The combination of a public health emergency, economic distress, and misinformation-driven panic have pushed customers and vendors towards the shadow economy. In particular, dark web marketplaces (DWMs), commercial websites accessible via free software, have gained significant popularity. Here, we analyse 851,199 listings extracted from 30 DWMs between January 1, 2020 and November 16, 2020. We identify 788 listings directly related to COVID-19 products and monitor the temporal evolution of product categories including
Identifiants
pubmed: 33500876
doi: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00259-w
pii: 259
pmc: PMC7819623
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
6Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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