MarkMonitor, the brand protection product company, announced the launch of a new way to help protect businesses against what the US firm calls the growing number of threats in the most obscure regions of the internet – the dark web.
MarkMonitor Dark Web and Cyber Intelligence provides monitoring in the Dark Web, Deep Web, chat rooms, Pastebin, forums and threat actor groups in social networks. It delivers alerts for threats that can be detected before, during and after a cyberattack.
As the firm says, the ‘Surface Web’ is the visible content that is indexed by search engines and only makes up 4pc of the Internet. The Deep Web and Dark Web accounts for the rest. That includes unindexed webpages, limited access content and gated information. A portion of this unindexed web is Dark Web, a collection of websites and content beneath the surface web, where IP addresses are hidden and users can operate anonymously. It’s in the Dark Web where fraudsters sell data stolen via phishing and malware attacks, offer criminal services for hire and provide tutorials on code-breaking. This drives the surge in cyberattacks targeting corporates, yet companies are having a hard time keeping up, MarkMonitor says. Its software uses automated processes to monitor and identify threats. Customised search keywords are in over 150 languages. Automated technology mimics the human behaviour needed to interact with cyber-criminals and infiltrate their networks to detect threats and analyse interactions between fraudsters. If a cyber attack has already occurred, the alerts will enable the user to understand the extent of the breach and mitigate any impact.
Akino Chikada, Senior Product Marketing Manager, MarkMonitor, said: “Many companies focus their brand protection strategies on monitoring and enforcing against abuse on the Surface Web. However, the number of cyberattacks that are propagated by activity in the Dark Web are steadily rising. Being aware of what is happening in the Dark Web has become just as important, if not more so, than monitoring the Surface Web – especially since fraudsters are actively seeking to evade detection.
“Threat actors are using the Dark Web to exchange information as they plan an attack or to sell stolen data, which is why it is critical for companies to gain near real-time visibility into these areas so they can act decisively to protect their business. In order to infiltrate these networks, organisations must build a level of trust with hackers and fraudsters, which is time consuming and labour-intensive to do manually.”
Visit www.markmonitor.com/darkweb.
