It’s important that businesses monitor Dark Web trends and activity to monitor what data has been breached and understand where there might be weak links at the employee and enterprise level.
UN data breach appears to stem from an employee login that was sold on the dark web. The attackers used this entry point to move farther into the organization's networks and conducted reconnaissance between April and August.
Hackers published one million stolen credit cards on the dark web to attract cybercriminals to their recently launched carding site. Up to 50% of the cards are active.
Fake vaccine certificates have been available for some time, but the market has picked up significant steam as the concept of "vaccine passports" has spread to domestic life and everyday activities.
REvil ransomware gang, implicated in the high-profile attacks on JBS and Kaseya, seems to have very suddenly disappeared from the internet. The group has even closed up pages advertising its services on the dark web.
A new password leak, the largest to date, contains over 8.4 billion credentials among which may have been the account used to get into Colonial Pipeline's network.
The gift cards belonged to 3,010 companies, including Amazon and Walmart, and were allegedly stolen from Cardpool’s backend. Both sales closed very quickly on the dark web forum.
An international law enforcement effort that involved multiple agencies from the United States and Europe has taken out a significant chunk of the dark web, putting 179 vendors out of business.
Stolen passwords from over 100,000 data breaches circulating on the dark web has reached 15 billion, a number that has risen by 300% within the last two years.
Compromised data belonging to ten companies is on sale on the dark web by a hacking group called ShinyHunters. The 73 million stolen user records is being sold for $18,000.