What Businesses Need To Know About The Dark Web – Cyber Threat Intelligence
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The ‘Dark Web’ is a subset of the ‘Deep Web’.
The dark web is made up of sites that are not indexed by search engines and are only accessible through specialty networks such as The Onion Router (ToR). Often, the dark web is used by cybercriminals who want to remain anonymous.?
Research conducted in 2015 by King’s College in London with the help of researchers Daniel Moore and Thomas Rid – shows that over 57% of the 2,723 ‘live dark web sites’ host illegal materials.
Fast forward to 2019, research conducted by Dr Michael McGuires of the University of Surrey showed that since 2016, the number of dark web listings that could be bad to business had increased by 20%.? Furthermore, 60% of all listings could potentially harm enterprises.
The dark web is like an online shopping mall of illicit things.?
Bad Actors ‘Hackers’ operate on the dark web and trade in the buying and selling of items including:
As our thirst for technology grows, so does our cyber risk.
How hackers are targeting businesses.?
Hackers leverage the dark web to create multiple ecosystems where they can buy and sell credentials – contact information: name, emails, phone numbers, passwords, credit cards, etc.?
Even the best cyber security defences can easily be breached. How? By ‘Trusted’ staff, client and supplier emails.
Corporations such as Yahoo, Alibaba, LinkedIn, Facebook, Marriott, Domino’s Pizza, and even some entities from the Australian government have all been victimised by breaches and data exposure.
How a simple email resulted in a $1.5 million ransom.?
Small to Medium Businesses are not safe from cyber threats. For example, a Queensland business executive was recently held for $1.5 million ransom after an employee opened a simple email.
It’s no secret that many people use the same credentials (usernames and passwords) across various channels – including the workplace. Hackers leverage business credentials, phishing and spear-phishing campaigns to infiltrate businesses.
In this case, bad actors infiltrated the businesses network via an email that looked like a message from a company partner.
The breach allowed the bad actors, hackers to access, encrypt and copy over 160,000 files and systems, including word documents and spreadsheets.
This is why businesses small and large are investing in cyber intelligence solutions, like DarkXposed to act as a double-check for their cybersecurity teams.
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