Tracking Discourse Influence in Darknet Forums

Abstract

This technical report documents our efforts in addressing the tasks set forth by the 2021 AMoC (Advanced Modelling of Cyber Criminal Careers) Hackathon. Our main contribution is a joint visualisation of semantic and temporal features, generating insight into the supplied data on darknet cybercrime through the aspects of novelty, transience, and resonance, which describe the potential impact a message might have on the overall discourse in darknet communities. All code and data produced by us as part of this hackathon is publicly available.

Submitted as an entry by Leipzig University's TEMIR group to the Bristol Cyber Security Group's AMoC (Advanced Modelling of Cyber Criminal Careers) project hackathon