Webinar Explains the Dark Web, Tor and Their Cybersecurity Risks
Summary
A DarkOwl webinar explains how the dark web and Tor work, what kinds of data and criminal activity appear there, and how investigators can monitor those spaces while protecting their operational security.
Key points
- The speaker distinguishes the surface web, deep web and dark web, and explains Tor’s layered routing and anonymity features.
- Dark web marketplaces and forums can trade stolen personal and corporate data, credentials, malware and hacking tools; related activity also occurs on messaging platforms and other services.
- The webinar describes how threat actors advertise initial network access for potential ransomware activity, sometimes without naming the target.
- Investigators are advised to plan for operational security, assess threats and weaknesses, use appropriate safeguards, and continually reassess risk during investigations.
- The speaker outlines an intelligence workflow: define requirements, collect and analyze data, report findings and recommendations, and use feedback to guide further collection.
- DarkOwl promotes its commercial platform for searching and monitoring dark web and adjacent sources without directly visiting them.
Article Details
- Topic
- Dark web operations, fraud, and cybersecurity intelligence
People
Vendors
Products
TelegramSo, the two photos on the lower right, those are actually taken from telegram.TorEvan Blicker from DarkOwl explains the three types of internet (Surface Net, Deep Web, Dark Web) and the origins and workings of Tor.Vision UIIn our beginning in 2012, we pioneered dark net collection in relevant search, you know, we created our Vision UI tool, which allows you to have a graphical interface to search all of our data.
Industries
Critical infrastructureCritical infrastructure, that is another thing that can pop up if there’s talk related to that because those are things that typically the payments go through.Financial ServicesFinancial services, bank access fraud opportunities, selling crypto accounts that have already bypassed KYC.Government and defenseaccount sell it so now or use it to where they can’t be attributed back to them and then your government and defense contractors are always something that pops up as well on the dark web but anybody can be a target.HealthcareAnd then also, you know, in here in America, we have the United Healthcare CEO who was assassinated.