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most citedMapping the DeFi crime landscape: an evidence-based picture

17 citations · 44 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CY2026

Assessing Crime Disclosure Patterns in a Large-Scale Cybercrime Forum

Raphael Hoheisel, Tom Meurs, Jai Wientjes +3

Cybercrime forums play a central role in the cybercrime ecosystem, serving as hubs for the exchange of illicit goods, services, and knowledge. Previous studies have explored the ma…

cs.CE2025

The Economic Impact of DeFi Crime Events on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Stefan Kitzler, Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Bernhard Haslhofer

The Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem has experienced over $10 billion in direct losses due to crime events. Beyond these immediate losses, such events often trigger broader…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Identifying Key Expert Actors in Cybercrime Forums Based on their Technical Expertise

Estelle Ruellan, Francois Labreche, Masarah Paquet-Clouston

The advent of Big Data has made the collection and analysis of cyber threat intelligence challenging due to its volume, leading research to focus on identifying key threat actors;…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

The Use of Large Language Models (LLM) for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) in Cybercrime Forums

Vanessa Clairoux-Trepanier, Isa-May Beauchamp, Estelle Ruellan +3

Large language models (LLMs) can be used to analyze cyber threat intelligence (CTI) data from cybercrime forums, which contain extensive information and key discussions about emerg…

cs.CR2023★ 17 cited

Mapping the DeFi crime landscape: an evidence-based picture

Catherine Carpentier-Desjardins, Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Stefan Kitzler +1

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been the target of numerous profit-driven crimes, but the prevalence and cumulative impact of these crimes have not yet been assessed. This study p…

cs.CR2023★ 15 cited

Conti Inc.: Understanding the Internal Discussions of a large Ransomware-as-a-Service Operator with Machine Learning

Estelle Ruellan, Masarah Paquet-Clouston, Sebastian Garcia

Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is increasing the scale and complexity of ransomware attacks. Understanding the internal operations behind RaaS has been a challenge due to the illeg…