What are Illicit Communities? Defining the Deep and Dark Web In order to identify emerging cyber and physical threats, fraud, and other malicious activity, CTI and SOC teams must monitor the total threat landscape. Traditionally, the term “deep and dark web,” or DDW, is used to describe the digital underground where threat actors operate. But...Read More

The Internet of Things (IoT) is vulnerable to dark web cybercriminals looking to compromise network security. Adversarial AI is an additional tool in the hacker armoury for exploiting IoT vulnerabilities. A zero-tolerance approach across the entire IoT supply chain is needed. The dark web has evolved into a clandestine marketplace where illicit activities flourish under...Read More

Safeguarding sensitive data, maintaining brand reputation, and cultivating customer trust pose continuous challenges for enterprise organizations. However, the dark web, a hidden corner of the internet, poses unique challenges for cybersecurity professionals. Criminal activities such as the sale of stolen credentials and plans for targeted attacks thrive in this ‘dark’ section of the internet. This...Read More

Reading time: 10 min First published: Apr 15, 2025 Updated 2 times since publishing The dark web is the hidden side of the internet that isn’t visible to regular search engines and requires special tools to access. While often associated with illegal activities, it also serves legitimate purposes for privacy-conscious users, journalists, and people in...Read More

Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of wild, impulsive things — but today, I may have pushed it too far. I accessed the Dark Web. While many of you might already know what it is, for those hearing about it for the first time: the Dark Web is a hidden section of the internet, layered...Read More

A hacker with over three decades worth of experience has shared some of the scariest things he has seen on the dark web. While the dark web is something most people are not well informed on, there is one hacker who has been trolling the secretive server for over 30 years. Often associated with criminal...Read More

Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020. Archetyp Market sellers provided the market’s customers with access to high volumes of drugs, including cocaine, amphetamines, heroin, cannabis, MDMA, and synthetic opioids like fentanyl through more than 3,200 registered vendors and...Read More

“I can still smell it… It’s sticky, ew… Oh my God, what is that?” says YouTuber CryptoNWO right before he vomits on camera. He’s an influencer opening a “mystery box” – supposedly bought from the dark web – and has just pulled a plastic bag with something in it that you’d most likely find in...Read More

Let’s Plunge Further: Steering through the Twists and Turns of the Invisible Web and Shadow Web Think of the internet as an unbounded digital cosmos; our daily interaction only grazes the surface. Dwelling beneath tiers of commonly visited websites is a complex maze of data, christened the “Invisible Web” and the “Shadow Web.” This discourse...Read More

Sites on the dark web are marketplaces for emerging cyber threats. Leveraging dark web monitoring and threat intelligence allows security teams to quickly identify, profile, and mitigate risks to their organizations. Recorded Future’s machine learning and natural language processing instantly creates links from sites on the dark web to other threat sources, enabling you to...Read More