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

Authors: S Kitzler, M Paquet-Clouston, B Haslhofer
Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00669, 2025
Year: 2025
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Extending drift theory to cybercrime forum participation: the case of digital workers

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, L Vincendon
Journal: Global Crime, 1-25, 2025
Year: 2025
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Mapping the DeFi crime landscape: an evidence-based picture

Authors: C Carpentier-Desjardins, M Paquet-Clouston, S Kitzler, B Haslhofer
Journal: Journal of Cybersecurity 11 (1), tyae029, 2025
Year: 2025
Citations: 12
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Identifying Key Expert Actors in Cybercrime Forums Based on Their Technical Expertise

Authors: E Ruellan, F Labrèche, M Paquet-Clouston
Journal: 2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), 175-186, 2024
Year: 2024
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Incorporating the Illicit: Assessing the market supply of Shelf companies

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, N Lord, J Philibert, C Giese
Journal: European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 30 (3), 475-501, 2024
Year: 2024
Citations: 6
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The use of large language models (llm) for cyber threat intelligence (cti) in cybercrime forums

Authors: V Clairoux-Trepanier, IM Beauchamp, E Ruellan, M Paquet-Clouston, ...
Journal: arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.03354, 2024
Year: 2024
Citations: 23
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Conti Inc.: understanding the internal discussions of a large ransomware-as-a-service operator with machine learning

Authors: E Ruellan, M Paquet-Clouston, S Garcia
Journal: Crime Science 13 (1), 16, 2024
Year: 2024
Citations: 14
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A robust measure to uncover community brokerage in illicit networks

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, M Bouchard
Journal: Journal of Quantitative Criminology 39 (3), 705-733, 2023
Year: 2023
Citations: 5
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An Exploration on Cryptocurrency Corporations’ Fiscal Opportunities

Authors: T Charest, M Paquet-Clouston
Journal: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023, 1085-1092, 2023
Year: 2023
Citations: 1
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On the dynamics behind profit-driven cybercrime: From contextual factors to perceived group structures, and the workforce at the periphery

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, S García
Journal: Global Crime 24 (2), 122-144, 2023
Year: 2023
Citations: 8
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On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, S García
Journal: Trends in Organized Crime, 1-30, 2022
Year: 2022
Citations: 22
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Entanglement: cybercrime connections of a public forum population

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, SO Paquette, S Garcia, MJ Erquiaga
Journal: Journal of Cybersecurity 8 (1), tyac010, 2022
Year: 2022
Citations: 8
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Cybercrime specialization: An exposé of a malicious android obfuscation-as-a-service

Authors: V Šembera, M Paquet-Clouston, S Garcia, MJ Erquiaga
Journal: 2021 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW …, 2021
Year: 2021
Citations: 17
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The role of informal workers in online economic crime

Authors: MC Paquet-Clouston
Journal: Simon Fraser University, 2021
Year: 2021
Citations: 8
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Spams meet cryptocurrencies: Sextortion in the bitcoin ecosystem

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, M Romiti, B Haslhofer, T Charvat
Journal: Proceedings of the 1st ACM conference on advances in financial technologies …, 2019
Year: 2019
Citations: 85
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Patterns in Cannabis Cryptomarkets in Canada in 2018

Authors: D Décary-Hétu, M Paquet-Clouston, M Bouchard, C Morselli
Journal: Public Safety Canada= Sécurité publique Canada, 2019
Year: 2019
Citations: 4
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Évolution des cryptomarchés du cannabis au Canada en 2018

Authors: D Décary-Hétu, M Paquet-Clouston, M Bouchard, C Morselli
Journal: Sécurité publique Canada= Public Safety Canada, 2019
Year: 2019
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Ransomware payments in the bitcoin ecosystem

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, B Haslhofer, B Dupont
Journal: Journal of Cybersecurity 5 (1), tyz003, 2019
Year: 2019
Citations: 335
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Comprendre les interactions des vendeurs de drogues illicites sur les forums de discussion des cryptomarchés

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, C Autixier, D Décary-Hétu
Journal: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 60 (4), 455-477, 2018
Year: 2018
Citations: 8
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Assessing market competition and vendors’ size and scope on AlphaBay

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, D Décary-Hétu, C Morselli
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy 54, 87-98, 2018
Year: 2018
Citations: 117
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Cybercrime is whose responsibility? A case study of an online behaviour system in crime

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, D Décary-Hétu, O Bilodeau
Journal: Global Crime 19 (1), 1-21, 2018
Year: 2018
Citations: 27
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Conflict management in illicit drug cryptomarkets

Authors: C Morselli, D Décary-Hétu, M Paquet-Clouston, J Aldridge
Journal: International Criminal Justice Review 27 (4), 237-254, 2017
Year: 2017
Citations: 120
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The independent’s edge in an illegal drug distribution setting: Levitt and Venkatesh revisited

Authors: C Morselli, M Paquet-Clouston, C Provost
Journal: Social networks 51, 118-126, 2017
Year: 2017
Citations: 30
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Can we trust social media data? social network manipulation by an iot botnet

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, O Bilodeau, D Décary-Hétu
Journal: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on social media & society, 1-9, 2017
Year: 2017
Citations: 37
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Are cryptomarkets the future of drug dealing

Authors: MC Paquet-Clouston
Journal: Assessing the structure of the drug market hosted on cryptomarkets …, 2017
Year: 2017
Citations: 9
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Going international? Risk taking by cryptomarket drug vendors

Authors: D Décary-Hétu, M Paquet-Clouston, J Aldridge
Journal: International Journal of Drug Policy 35, 69-76, 2016
Year: 2016
Citations: 144
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When greed for fame benefits large-scale botnets

Authors: M Paquet-Clouston, D Décary-Hétu, O Bilodeau, T Dupuy
Year: 2016
Citations: 1
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Criminalités économiques CRI-6228

Authors: P Lionel-Groulx, M Paquet-Clouston
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