Guardians of Anonymity: Exploring Tactics to Combat Cyber Threats in Onion Routing Environments
Karwan Mustafa Kareem

TL;DR
This paper analyzes cybercrime threats in onion routing networks, reviews existing countermeasures, and discusses future research directions to enhance privacy protection while combating illegal activities.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive review of cyber threats and countermeasures in onion routing networks, highlighting limitations and proposing interdisciplinary future research avenues.
Findings
Cybercrime in darknets includes drug trafficking, fraud, and hacking.
Detecting illegal activities is challenging due to strong anonymity guarantees.
Existing countermeasures have limitations, requiring new interdisciplinary approaches.
Abstract
Onion routing networks, also known as darknets, are private networks that enable anonymous communication over the Internet. They are used by individuals and organizations to protect their privacy, but they also attract cybercriminals who exploit the anonymity provided by these networks for illegal activities. This paper comprehensively analyzes cybercrime threats and countermeasures in onion routing networks. We review the various types of cybercrime that occur in these networks, including drug trafficking, fraud, hacking, and other illicit activities. We then discuss the challenges associated with detecting and mitigating cybercrime in onion routing networks, such as the difficulty of tracing illegal activities back to their source due to the strong anonymity guarantees provided by these networks. We also explore the countermeasures that have been proposed and implemented to combat…
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TopicsPrivacy, Security, and Data Protection
