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The deep and darkweb (d2web) refers to limited access web sites that require registration, authentication, or more complex encryption protocols to access them. These web sites serve as hubs for a variety of illicit activities: to trade…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Nazgol Tavabi , Nathan Bartley , Andrés Abeliuk , Sandeep Soni , Emilio Ferrara , Kristina Lerman

The rapid growth of metaverse technologies, including virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, has accelerated their adoption across diverse domains. This rise exposes users to significant new security and privacy challenges due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Argianto Rahartomo , Leonel Merino , Mohammad Ghafari

The metaverse and digital, virtual environments have been part of recent history as places in which people can socialize, work and spend time playing games. However, the infancy of the development of these digital, virtual environments…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Matteo Zallio , Takumi Ohashi , P. John Clarkson

At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the decentralized metaverse ecology has attracted a large influx of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jiajing Wu , Kaixin Lin , Dan Lin , Ziye Zheng , Huawei Huang , Zibin Zheng

The adoption of virtual reality (VR) technologies has rapidly gained momentum in recent years as companies around the world begin to position the so-called "metaverse" as the next major medium for accessing and interacting with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Vivek Nair , Dawn Song

Augmented Reality (AR) applications are becoming more mainstream, with successful examples in the mobile environment like Pokemon GO. Current malicious techniques can exploit these environments' immersive and mixed nature (physical-virtual)…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Xian Wang , Lik-Hang Lee , Carlos Bermejo Fernandez , Pan Hui

Metaverse in general holds a potential future for cyberspace. At the beginning of Web 2.0, it was witnessed that people were signing in with various pseudonyms or 'nyms', risking their online identities by increasing presence of fake…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Sibi Chakkaravarthy Sethuraman , Aditya Mitra , Anisha Ghosh , Gautam Galada , Anitha Subramanian

The Metaverse, an immersive virtual world, has emerged as a shared space where people engage in various activities ranging from social interactions to commerce. Cryptocurrencies [3] and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) [6] play pivotal roles…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Syed Ali Asif , Emma Cao , Hang Chen , Chien-Chung Shen , Yan-Ming Chiou

In Cyberspace nowadays, there is a burst of information that everyone has access. However, apart from the advantages the Internet offers, it also hides numerous dangers for both people and nations. Cyberspace has a dark side, including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Maria Papathanasaki , Georgios Dimitriou , Leandros Maglaras , Ismini Vasileiou , Helge Janicke

Exploring the darknet can be a daunting task; this paper explores the application of data mining the darknet within a Canadian cybercrime perspective. Measuring activity through marketplace analysis and vendor attribution has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Edward Crowder , Jay Lansiquot

Since Facebook officially changed its name to Metaverse in Oct. 2021, the metaverse has become a new norm of social networks and three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds. The metaverse aims to bring 3D immersive and personalized experiences to…

The metaverse promises unprecedented immersive digital experiences but also raises critical privacy concerns as vast amounts of personal and behavioral data are collected. As immersive technologies blur the boundaries between physical and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Muhammad Irfan Khalid , Ilias Pappas , Moatasim Mahmoud , Stamatia Rizou

Metaverse, with the combination of the prefix "meta" (meaning transcending) and the word "universe", has been deemed as the next-generation (NextG) Internet. It aims to create a shared virtual space that connects all virtual worlds via the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ruizhi Cheng , Nan Wu , Songqing Chen , Bo Han

Social Virtual Reality (VR) platforms have surged in popularity, yet their security risks remain underexplored. This paper presents four novel UI attacks that covertly manipulate users into performing harmful actions through deceptive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Junhee Lee , Hwanjo Heo , Seungwon Woo , Minseok Kim , Jongseop Kim , Jinwoo Kim

Metaverse, the core of the next-generation Internet, is a computer-generated holographic digital environment that simultaneously combines spatio-temporal, immersive, real-time, sustainable, interoperable, and data-sensitive characteristics.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chuan Chen , Yuecheng Li , Zhenpeng Wu , Chengyuan Mai , Youming Liu , Yanming Hu , Zibin Zheng , Jiawen Kang

Under the aegis of computer vision and deep learning technology, a new emerging techniques has introduced that anyone can make highly realistic but fake videos, images even can manipulates the voices. This technology is widely known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Bahar Uddin Mahmud , Afsana Sharmin

Metaverse as the latest buzzword has attracted great attention from both industry and academia. Metaverse seamlessly integrates the real world with the virtual world and allows avatars to carry out rich activities including creation,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Qinglin Yang , Yetong Zhao , Huawei Huang , Zehui Xiong , Jiawen Kang , Zibin Zheng

A prototype Metaverse experience was created in which users could explore hierarchical cybersecurity data. A small group of participants were surveyed on their attitudes to the Metaverse. They then completed a short series of tasks in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Terence Eden

The internet promised to democratize access to knowledge and make the world more open and understanding. The reality of today's internet, however, is far from this ideal. Misinformation, lies, and conspiracies dominate many social media…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Vibhor Sehgal , Ankit Peshin , Sadia Afroz , Hany Farid

In this article, we study the privacy and security aspects of the metaverse in the context of digital healthcare. Our studies include the security aspects of data collection and communications for access to the metaverse, the privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Mehdi Letafati , Safa Otoum