In the heart of the bustling city, Detective Sarah Mitchell stared at her computer screen in disbelief. A string of unsolved murders had baffled her department for months. The victims were scattered across the globe, their deaths bearing eerie similarities that hinted at the work of a sadistic serial killer. But what caught Sarah’s attention...Read More

The dark web has been depicted as a long-standing hub for crimes, where illegal activities such as drug dealing, financial fraud, weapon sales, murder for hire, stolen credit cards, and ransomware gags are easily accessible to the public. About the Author ‌Rezaul Karim, a member of Compliance Week’s Advisory Board, is a seasoned financial crime compliance...Read More

Hacker forums have long served as the foundation of Dark Web communication, enabling threat actors to share tools, trade stolen data, and coordinate illicit activity in highly anonymous environments. These Dark Web forums are not static; they evolve, vanish, or reappear under new names and leadership. The transition from RaidForums to BreachForums, followed by its...Read More

We know that everyone loves a feel-good, optimistic story, and when we set out to write our annual State of the Underground report — an analysis of nearly 2 billion intelligence items that we collected in 2024, including posts from underground forums and markets, Telegram messages, and news articles — we hoped to find the...Read More

When thinking about the future of dark web monitoring, it’s not just about making predictions; it’s about understanding the trends we’re already seeing and forecasting how the new innovations happening right now will shape the cybersecurity landscape.  In this article, we will explore the key trends and innovations affecting the dark web monitoring space, as...Read More

With 2025’s chaos, breaches and hacks are nonstop, and stolen emails, phone numbers, and passwords often end up for sale in the hidden corners of the internet. Google’s free dark web scan offers a way to check. While this sounds like peace of mind, how much protection does it really give you?  What is Google’s...Read More

The terms deep and dark sound glamorous and forbidding, maybe criminal. Both terms just mean that we can’t reach a site on that portion of the web via a conventional search engine. The Surface Web, the part that we can reach via a conventional search engine like Google, DuckDuckGo, or Brave, is estimated roughly to...Read More

Key Takeaways Understanding the Dark Web: The dark web is a hidden part of the internet requiring specific tools for access, providing a mix of legal and illegal activities while offering anonymity. Deep Web vs. Dark Web: The deep web includes non-indexed content on the internet, while the dark web specifically pertains to anonymous activities,...Read More

NightCat Studio has released a trailer with the release date for Project DeepWeb: Eternal Nightmare, a spin-off of Project DeepWeb, which explores the deep web. «In Project DeepWeb: Eternal Nightmare, you will continue the story that began in Project DeepWeb. You will take control of ReduxOS Professional, an in-game operating system, with access to a vast network of websites, puzzles, and files. Stuck...Read More

Think you’ve seen the Internet? Chances are, you haven’t even scratched the surface. You see, the entire Internet has two relevant parts: the surface web and the deep web. The surface web encompasses everything you can see or find through search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing. These are websites like Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter...Read More