Topical Shifts in the Dark Web: A Longitudinal Analysis of Content from the Cybercrime Ecosystem
Longitudinal analysis reveals how cybercrime forums pivot topic focus following law enforcement takedowns, providing predictive intelligence for threat actors' next moves.
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arXiv:2605.15345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The dark web hosts a dynamic ecosystem of cybercrime forums and marketplaces that adapt to law enforcement pressure, technological change, and economic incentives. Prior research has extracted cyber threat intelligence from these platforms using static snapshots, with limited attention to how discussions evolve over time. In this study, we conduct a longitudinal analysis of 25,065 websites in the dark web using 11,403,638 HTML snapshots (approxima
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