

Matt Wilson, chief information security advisor at BTB Security, says that "there is a tame/lame side to the dark web that would probably surprise most people. It's kind of like Geocities, but 2018"-a vibe that's helped along by pages with names like "My Deepweb Site," which you can see on the screenshot. The screenshot below was provided by Radware security researcher Daniel Smith, and he says it's the product of "automatic scripts that go out there and find new URLs, new onions, every day, and then list them. While searching for dark web sites isn't as easy as using Google-the point is to be somewhat secretive, after all- there are ways to find out what's there.

The paths usually begin on sites like Pastebin, originally intended as an easy place to upload long code samples or other text but now often where links to the anonymous Tor network are stashed for a few days or hours for interested parties. New dark web sites pop up every day.Ī 2015 white paper from threat intelligence firm Recorded Future examines the linkages between the Web you know and the darknet. Here are ten things you might not know about the dark web. Hopefully it will demystify things a bit. We spoke to some security pros who offered to give us a bit of a guided tour of the web's nether regions. Scan the dark web for threat intelligence.Dark web takedowns make good headlines, do little for security.Is your data being sold on the dark web?.

