https://arxiv.org/html/2404.14112v1
We collect and analyse web content accessible through onion websites, study user searches on the Tor search engine, Ahmia.fi, and demonstrate that CSAM is ...Read more
https://www.protectchildren.ca/en/press-and-media/blog/2025/tor-backgrounder
Aug 22, 2025 — Tor Onion services are one of the most common online resources used to host or make child sexual abuse material (CSAM) available on the internet ...Read more
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03343-4
by T Koebe · 2024 · Cited by 2 — 0.08% of Tor mobile download traffic observed in France is linked to the consumption of CSAM by correlating it with local-level temporal porn
https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=afe18459-ead2-459e-82ed-b66b17c0b90a&subId=715409
Sep 21, 2021 — In particular, concern about the existence of dedicated. CSAM onion services hosted on the Tor network were raised (Terms of Reference [a]).Read more
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1039982
Apr 3, 2024 — The researchers found that in 2023 alone, one in five of these websites shared child sexual abuse material. This material was easily available on 21 of Tor's ...Re
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11757-023-00790-8
by C Gannon · 2023 · Cited by 38 — Hundreds of these darknet forums are especially dedicated to the exchange of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).Read more
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356383802_Tor's_underworld_'onion_services'_and_child_sex_abuse_material_Submission_to_the_Australian_Parliamentary_Joint_Committee_on_Law_Enforcement_inquiry_into_'Law_enforcement_capabilities_in_relation_to_c
Dec 10, 2021 — This is demonstrated by the presence of CSAM and other abhorrent material on Tor. The limits of the deterrence approach suggests that a broader ...Read more
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213425000547
by HM Lahtinen · 2025 · Cited by 6 — A recent study by Nurmi et al. (2024) revealed that one-fifth of onion websites on Tor shared CSAM, which was easily accessible through 21
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-06/child_sexual_abuse_material_2.pdf
Administrators and users of “hidden services” on Tor have reliable, anonymous access to CSAM, allowing offenders to commit their crimes openly with little to no ...Read more
https://cj.msu.edu/_assets/pdfs/cina/CINA-White_Papers-Liggett_Commercial_Child_Sexual_Abuse_Markets_Dark_Web.pdf
Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is content that depicts the sexual abuse of children under the age of. 18-years-old. As a general term, CSAM refers to child ...Read more
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/secretary-johnson-announces-results-operation-dismantled-underground-child
Aug 12, 2025 — Fourteen men operating a child pornography website on the Darknet's Onion Router, also known as Tor, have been arrested and charged as part of a conspiracy to ...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/25/tor-network-child-sexual-abuse
Aug 26, 2025 — The Tor network's privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material.
https://support.torproject.org/abuse/remove-content-from-onion-address/
Understanding why the Tor Project can't remove content from .onion sites. The Tor Project does not host or control .onion services and cannot identify their ...Read more
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marshlaw_csam-distribution-on-tor-is-not-inevitable-activity-7369025817676324867-jqF6
Tor (The Onion Router) is an open-source software that enables anonymous browsing and the creation of websites (“Onion services”).
https://www.suojellaanlapsia.fi/en/post/nature-scientific-reports-investigating-child-sexual-abuse-on-tor2024
Apr 5, 2024 — The study found that one-fifth of onion domains share CSAM, and that CSAM is easily available on 21 out of the 26 most popular Tor search engines.Read more
https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/tor-network-research-raised-early-alarm-mass-scale-child-sexual-abuse-material-distribution
May 19, 2025 — In 2025, the project detected 50,000 onion domains on the Tor anonymity network that disseminate CSAM and reported these to law enforcement. The ...Read more
https://www.inhope.org/EN/articles/online-training-module-on-tor-and-onion-sites
Onion sites, also known as hidden services, are websites hosted on the dark web and accessible only through the Tor network. These sites have domain names ...Read more
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3927628
by R Broadhurst · 2021 · Cited by 6 — In particular, concern about the existence of dedicated CSAM onion services hosted on the Tor network were raised (Terms of Reference [a])
https://tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/download/29/17/118
by T Insoll · 2022 · Cited by 49 — As of 2014, an estimated 17% of the onion services provided ”adult content,” about half of which was classified as CSAM (Spitters, Verbru
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024NatSR..14.7849N/abstract
by J Nurmi · 2024 · Cited by 22 — We find that CSAM is easily available using 21 out of the 26 most-used Tor search engines. We analyse 110,133,715 search sessions from the Ahm