Publications (4)
Understanding motivations and characteristics of financially-motivated cybercriminals
Claudia Peersman, Emma Williams, Matthew Edwards +1
Background: Cyber offences, such as hacking, malware creation and distribution, and online fraud, present a substantial threat to organizations attempting to safeguard their data a…
Characterising Cybercriminals: A Review
Matthew Edwards, Emma Williams, Claudia Peersman +1
This review provides an overview of current research on the known characteristics and motivations of offenders engaging in cyber-dependent crimes. Due to the shifting dynamics of c…
A Survey of Relevant Text Mining Technology
Claudia Peersman, Matthew Edwards, Emma Williams +1
Recent advances in text mining and natural language processing technology have enabled researchers to detect an authors identity or demographic characteristics, such as age and gen…
Automatic User Profiling in Darknet Markets: a Scalability Study
Claudia Peersman, Matthew Edwards, Emma Williams +1
In this study, we investigate the scalability of state-of-the-art user profiling technologies across different online domains. More specifically, this work aims to understand the r…