Crime and Online Anonymous Markets

Abstract

Online anonymous markets have been around since early 2011 and are aprominent part of today’s cybercrime ecosystem. Their popularity as markets inillicit goods has steadily grown over the years. With the rise ofmarkets like Silk Road, similar marketplaces came into existence where next todrugs, supply and demand of other products and services could meet: rangingfrom physical goods, like passports and weapons, to digital goods and services,like carding and cybercrime software. As a resultwe can witness an increasing supply of criminal product and services onstandardized digital trading platforms in the underground economy.