The Anonymity of the Dark Web: A Survey #03

This is my personal note about the paper introduction. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359421382_The_Anonymity_of_the_Dark_Web_A_Survey

Literature review scope

• Primary goal is to collect the literature and collectively give an overview of threats.
• To gather literature.
  • IEEE Xplore, ACM digital library, Scopus, Springer, Science Direct, Google Scholar.
  • Search keywords
    • "dark web", "darknet"
    • "Tor", "I2P", "Freenet"
  • Extra keywords
    • "markets", "cybercrime", "Tor hidden service", "threat intelligence techniques", "attack pattern", "threat landscape", "anonimity OR deanonymization"
• Period
  • published between 2011 and 2021.
• It is a list of 150 journal articles and conference papers by search.
• Filtering by CORE 2020 journal ranking and manually for greater relavance.
• The final list.
  • 79 articles
  • 50% focuses on attacks
  • 36 % focuses on threat techniques
  • 14% focuses on dark web.
• lack of literature on mitigating techniques against those attacks.
• Research architectural framework on this paper.
  • The first category: The anonymity of the dark web and occurring
    • Mainly focus on Tor, I2P and Freenet.
  • The second category: The detection approaches for crimes.
  • The third category: The attack on the dark web.
    • First group: law enforcement agencies
    • Second group: the criminals

Organization of the paper

• Section 1: introduction
  • (This blog article is the end of the section 1.)
• Section 2: Working of the dark web
• Section 3: Threat intelligence techniques
• Section 4: Attacks in the dark web
• Section 5: Research gaps and future work
• Section 6: Conclusion