Dizzy: Large-Scale Crawling and Analysis of Onion Services. (arXiv:2209.07202v1 [cs.CR])

Web: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07202

With nearly 2.5m users, onion services have become the prominent part of the
darkweb. Over the last five years alone, the number of onion domains has
increased 20x, reaching more than 700k unique domains in January 2022. As onion
services host various types of illicit content, they have become a valuable
resource for darkweb research and an integral part of e-crime investigation and
threat intelligence. However, this content is largely un-indexed by today's
search engines and researchers have to rely …

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