Inside the Dark Web

This book provides a broad overview of emerging digital threats and computer crimes, with an emphasis on cyber-stalking, hacktivism, fraud and identity theft, and attacks on critical infrastructure. It also analyzes the online underground economy, digital currencies, and cybercrime on the Dark Web. The book explores how Dark Web crimes are conducted in new mediums, such as IOT and P2P file sharing systems. It starts with the fundamentals of Dark Web and explains the threat landscape of Dark Web. After introducing the TOR browser, it takes a deep dive into cybersecurity criminal activities in the Dark Web, forensics of Dark Web, web content analysis, and threat intelligence.

1. An Introduction to the Dark Web. 2. Cybercrime and the Dark Web. 3. Malicious Software. 4. Dark Web Malicious Hacker Forums. 5. Ransomware. 6. Accessing Dark Web Contents. 7. Crypto Market and Cryptocurrency. 8. Threat Intelligence from the Dark Web. 9. Social Engineering in the Dark Web. 10. Products and Vendors in Dark Web Markets. 11. Dark Web Forensics. 12. Open Source Intelligence. 13. Emerging Trend of Dark-Net and Mitigating Techniques. 14. Hands-on Dark Web.

Dr. Rafiqul Islam has more than 15 years teaching and research experiences at different universities in Australia and overseas. Currently, He is working as an Associate Professor in Computing at Charles Sturt University, Australia and Leading the Cyber Security Research Group (CSRG) since 2014. He has a strong research background in Cybersecurity with specific focus on malware analysis and classification, Dark Web, authentication, dark web threat analysis, security in cloud, privacy in social media and Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Islam has been involved, as General Chair, Cahir, and member of organizing committee & TPC, in a number of International conferences and acting as a member of an editorial team of different International Journals. He has a strong publication record and has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scholarly research papers, Book chapters and Books. He is also one of the CSU chief investigators for the newly established $140 million Cybersecurity CRC, contributing to the projects related to Resilient Networks, Security and configuration management of IoT system, Platform & Architecture of cybersecurity as a service and malware detection and removal. His contributions have been recognized as evidenced by numerous national and International recognitions and awards. Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is an IT Security Guru with business development and management skills who focuses on Penetration Testing, IT Auditing and sharing his real life skills as a Lecturer/ Trainer and is currently working as Chief Information Security Officer at EMT. Erdal has the following qualifications: Master of Information Systems Security (M.I.S), Bachelor of Information Technology (B.I.T.), MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Leaning Consultant, ISO27001 Consultant, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Ethical Instructor, and Licenced Penetration Tester. He is a lecturer at Charles Sturt University and is also completing his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in IT Security. He is an award winning speaker and technical expert in worldwide conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Hacker Halted, Microsoft Management Summit, AusCERT, trade shows and in webcasts for Microsoft and EC-Council and many other vendors. He was awarded “Best Speaker” in Microsoft TechEd Australia and an won the Global Instructor of the Year Award (2011 & 2012) and “Circle of Excellence Award” from EC Council. His proven success deployments especially in the areas of Microsoft workloads in real life has become subject to IT magazines. Erdal is advising and creating content to Government departments, Fortune 500 companies and Information Security Professionals to ensure they are getting prepared against latest “Cyber Crime” and being able to defend their organizations against any security breaches. He is actively involved in the complex IT security solutions, and enforcing regulatory requirements to the organizations, to protect their digital assets. As well as his extensive IT skills Erdal has been working in the management field for the past 15 years. He has built and managed CEO IT from scratch into a national training and IT solutions center. With the skills he has gained he has introduced and repeated the success with KEMP, where he was tasked to single-handedly manage the ANZ region and then build the Asia Pacific region.