Cybersecurity Report: Hunting IT professionals on the Dark Web

Cybersecurity Report: Hunting IT professionals on the Dark Web

The dark web is a collective name for a variety of websites and marketplaces that bring together individuals willing to engage in illicit or shady activities. Dark web forums contain ads for selling and buying stolen data, offers to code malware and hack websites, posts seeking like-minded individuals to participate in attacks on companies, and many more.

An analysis report by?Kaspersky?found that of the dark web job market found:

The greatest number of ads were posted in March 2020, which was likely related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing changes in the structure of the job market.

The major dark web employers are hacker teams and APT groups looking for those capable of developing and spreading malware code, building and maintaining IT infrastructure, and so on.

Job ads seeking developers are the most frequent ones, at 61% of the total.

Developers also topped the list of the best-paid dark web IT jobs: the highest advertised monthly salary figure we saw in an ad for a developer was $20,000.

The median levels of pay offered to IT professionals varied between $1,300 and $4,000.

The highest median salary of $4,000 could be found in ads for reverse engineers.

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