EMCDDA special report: COVID-19 and drugs – Drug supply via darknet markets

This report is a rapid and preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on selected online markets.

Metadata
Provider: 
ECEC
URL: 
https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/ad-hoc/covid-19-and-drugs-drug-supply-via-darknet-markets_enhttps://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/ad-hoc/covid-19-and-drugs-drug-supply-via-darknet-markets_en
Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Information
Tags: 
Digital technology, Computing, Information and communications technology, File sharing, Cyberspace, Darknet, Distributed computing architecture, Network architecture, Dark web
Summary
Key Points: 
  • This report is a rapid and preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on selected online markets.
  • Three relatively large darknet markets were reviewed for the purposes of this study, selected because of their importance to the EU market and because they could be accessed to provide information necessary to comment on activity levels.
  • A limitation of this study is that not all major darknet markets could be included at the time of drafting (April 2020).
  • Qualitative information from a number of online forums was also analysed to further inform the analysis provided here.
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