by C Gannon · 2023 · Cited by 38 — Hundreds of these darknet forums are especially dedicated to the exchange of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

by J Chopin · 2023 · Cited by 7 — This study aims to explore the cybersecurity concerns of dark web pedophile forum users known to be a hard-to-reach offender population.

Dec 30, 2014 — A surprising new study indicates that an overwhelming majority of Dark Web traffic is driven by the darkest activity: the sexual abuse of ...

Aug 29, 2022 — The analysis, based on research literature, studies online sexual violence targeted at children, and the perpetrators of child sexual abuse ...

by JA Kloess · 2021 · Cited by 39 — Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) has existed long before the emergence of the Internet; however, new opportunities for offending a

Mar 10, 2017 — The Dark Web may be used for legitimate purposes as well as to conceal criminal or otherwise malicious activities.

The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets (overlay networks) that use the Internet, but require specific software, configurations, ...

Jun 19, 2014 — Tens of thousands of paedophiles are using the so-called dark net to trade images of sexual abuse, an investigation by BBC News indicates.

May 11, 2021 — This study uses crime script analysis to reconstruct step-by-step how offenders operate on the darknet.

by A Blokland · 2024 · Cited by 9 — The darknet hosts an increasing number of hidden services dedicated to the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Given that by

Aug 26, 2025 — The Tor network's privacy architecture creates a safe haven for predators to share child sexual abuse material.

Recalling the link between child pornography consumption and sexual violence against children indicated by Eke et al., (2011) , Insoll et al., (2022) and Hall ...

Elysium was the largest meeting place for pedophiles on the dark web until it was busted by German police in 2017.

by E Guerra · 2023 — One such activity that is continually increasing in frequency is the sexual exploitation of children (Internet Watch Foundation, 2021; National ...

by D Schneevogt · 2023 — The data analysed stems from a corpus of eight dark web discussion fora related to child sexual abuse consisting of 295,799 forum posts written by 32,41

Apr 4, 2025 — A major international operation has dismantled one of the world's largest pedophile networks, Kidflix. It hosted child abuse videos.

Feb 23, 2021 — This report assesses the Darkweb from user, criminal and law enforcement perspectives with a particular focus on cybercriminality targeted at ...

Nov 15, 2018 — Daniel Winzen's server was breached, databases accessed, and accounts deleted, including the root, or administrator account, rendering his services unusable.

Aug 26, 2021 — “Chance Daykin accessed the dark web to feed his child pornography habit,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. “He uploaded child ...

12K votes, 1.6K comments. Hi Reddit, I've answered a few questions about the Dark Web on AskReddit threads that have blown up and caused ...