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Dark Web Monitoring: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Gaining access to dark web and deep web sources can be extremely powerful – if you focus on relevant use cases. The most successful strategies we observe have clear requirements, such as fraud detecti
The Modern Cybercriminal Forum
We took a deep-dive into the cybercriminal underground to investigate the persistence of forums, uncovering several reasons they remain attractive amid appealing alternatives.
Tochka Dark Web Market Offline, Market.ms Closes, And Data Leakage Stories
Alex, Harrison, Kacey, and Charles chat this week on some dark web and cybercriminal updates, data leakage stories that have hit the news, plus a GDPR story where an ISP was hit with a €9.6...
Forums are Forever – Part 1: Cybercrime Never Dies
The survival of the cybercriminal forum in the face of new, more secure technologies and constant pressure from law enforcement does not come as a surprise to researchers at Digital Shadows.
Forums are Forever – Part 2: Shaken, but not Stirred
Part 2 looks at cybercriminal forum users’ resistance to moving away from the forum model.
Dark Web Marketplace Trends 2019
Our team of researchers recently dug into the different popular dark web marketplaces to understand which marketplaces are gaining the most traction and what is being sold on these cybercriminal platf
Weekly Intelligence Summary 05 Dec - 12 Dec 2019
“Lazarus Group” has been linked to a new trojanized Mac OS X application, demonstrating the threat group’s preference for employing OS X malware over the past two years.
Black Friday Deals on the Dark Web: A cybercriminal shopper’s paradise
Criminals are conducting Black Friday sales amongst themselves, many of which are on the dark web.
Cybercriminal Forum Research, Mixcloud Breach, and International Crackdown On RAT Spyware
New cybercrime research we put out on the Modern Cybercriminal Forum and how the rise of alternative technologies hasn’t spelled the end of forums, which seem to be prospering against all odds.
Learn the importance of Dark and Deep Web Source Intelligence to Minimize your Digital Risk.
Probiv: The missing pieces to a cybercriminal’s puzzle
in the cybercriminal underground, there’s a service (and even a dedicated platform) that enables anyone to obtain sensitive information via insiders: Probiv.
Understanding the Different Cybercriminal Platforms: AVCs, Marketplaces, and Forums
We’re all familiar with forums and marketplaces (we use them in our daily lives – think Reddit, eBay, or Amazon, for example), but what exactly is an AVC? What do they look like?
Black Friday Deals On The Dark Web, Phineas Fisher Manifesto, And DarkMarket
Adam Cook and Viktoria Austin talk through the security and threat intelligence stories of this week including an update around Phineas Fisher, where the hacker offered up to $100k in what they...
Cybercriminal credit card stores: Is Brian out of the club?
In this blog, we determine whether this targeted attack on BriansClub will impact the wider cybercriminal credit carding landscape, and speculate whether it could galvanize the community to push anoth
Dark Web Overdrive: The Criminal Marketplace Understood Through Cyberpunk Fiction
How can the modern network of .onion marketplaces be understood through novels about a cyberpunk dystopia? The answer is in how dark web marketplaces grow and die.
Cybercriminal Forum Developments: Escrow Services
On Russian- and English-language cybercriminal forums on the clear and dark web, vendors are increasingly asking interested buyers to place money in a forum escrow service before they will provide fur
Dark Web Typosquatting: Scammers v. Tor
Time and time again, we see how the cybercriminal ecosystem often mirrors what happens in the business world. This can ...
BlueKeep Attacks, Megacortex Ransomware, and Web.com Breach
This week the London team looks at the following stories: - BlueKeep Exploit Could Rapidly Spread - Megacortex Ransomware Changes Windows Passwords - Japanese Media Company Nikkei - $29 million...
Envoy on a Mission to Bring Stability to the Criminal Underground
All this turbulence has resulted in significant disruption and unrest within the overall cybercriminal scene and, in particular, has left a vacuum for English-language forums. It’s within this context
Fresh blow for dark web markets: Nightmare market in disarray