Dark Web Monitoring – Scrapy

Many organizations experience data breaches of some kind. Important data like usernames and passwords or customer-specific information can be exposed either through technical faults on your network or through negligence — malicious or otherwise — by your employees. Your employees may be signing up for 3rd party sites and services using their corporate email addresses and a password they reuse everywhere – including your network. These sites and services – which are outside your control – may get hacked, exposing your employee’s information – including their passwords. Hackers then see an email address that includes your domain and see your employees’ passwords. They will either try to log in to your network using that information, or sell the credentials to someone who will. 

Did you know that most hacked information gets dumped on a place on the Internet called the “dark web”? 

What is the “dark web”? Simply put, it’s a part of the internet that is not indexed by search engines like Google, meaning there is no way to search for the sites and services published out there. This is by design. Dark web users do not want to be found. Though there are legitimate uses of the dark web, such as by pro-democracy activists and journalists operating in difficult parts of the world, it has largely become the domain of hackers and criminals. Hackers go to the dark web to sell the information they’ve hacked from companies like yours.