Investigating Drug Trafficking Using Encrypted Messengers: NLP and Data Analysis Approaches in Cybersecurity

Rushil Gautam, Kartik, Shravan Singh, Sarthak Srivastava, Dhanshri Parihar

2025

Abstract

The rise of encrypted messaging platforms has given the dealers of illegal drugs a new channel for their transactions, making it difficult for law enforcement authorities to deal with them. The paper studies usage of Natural Language Processing (NLP)and data analysis tech to find and analyze drug trafficking activities from imposts on encrypted messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram. By an analysis of digital forensic operations together with sophisticated machine learning models, this research is directed at finding crime patterns, retrieving temporal digital traces that have been erased and even building proposals for countermeasures in order to mitigate the cybersecurity risks connected with online drug selling.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gautam R., Kartik., Singh S., Srivastava S. and Parihar D. (2025). Investigating Drug Trafficking Using Encrypted Messengers: NLP and Data Analysis Approaches in Cybersecurity. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25; ISBN 978-989-758-777-1, SciTePress, pages 743-750. DOI: 10.5220/0013943100004919

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icrdicct`2525,
author={Rushil Gautam and Kartik and Shravan Singh and Sarthak Srivastava and Dhanshri Parihar},
title={Investigating Drug Trafficking Using Encrypted Messengers: NLP and Data Analysis Approaches in Cybersecurity},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25},
year={2025},
pages={743-750},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013943100004919},
isbn={978-989-758-777-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25
TI - Investigating Drug Trafficking Using Encrypted Messengers: NLP and Data Analysis Approaches in Cybersecurity
SN - 978-989-758-777-1
AU - Gautam R.
AU - Kartik.
AU - Singh S.
AU - Srivastava S.
AU - Parihar D.
PY - 2025
SP - 743
EP - 750
DO - 10.5220/0013943100004919
PB - SciTePress