Tokyo, Denver, Helsinki, Lisbon or the Professor? A Framework for Understanding Cybercriminal Roles in Darknet Markets

There is comparatively little information about the roles and the separation of these roles within financially-motivated cybercrime online. As Darknet Markets (DNMs) are online fora, roles can often be conflated with membership or user types within such fora, e.g., administrator, new user, etc. The insights presented in this paper are grounded in a Conversation Analysis of underground forum thread...