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Dark Web activity has increased by 300% in the last 3 years.
Over 30% of North Americans access the dark web regularly.
In 2020, credentials for about 133,927 C-level Fortune 1000 executives were available on the dark web
More than 22 billion new records were added to the dark web in 2020
Satellite affiliates of cybercrime gangs pay the boss gang 10 – 20% of the take on each successful job
An astonishing 25,927,476 passwords that belong to employees at Fortune 1000 companies were available readily in dark web markets and data dumps.
About 65% of active criminal gangs rely on spear phishing powered by dark web data to launch attacks.
The largest credential file to ever hit the dark web at once is the RockYou2021 password leak.
Hackers attack every 39 seconds, on average 2,244 times a day.
60% of the information available on the Dark Web could potentially harm enterprises.
What’s For Sale on the Dark Web?
In a recent breakdown of activity in popular dark web forums, researchers noted:
An estimated 90% of posts on dark web forums are from buyers looking to contract someone for cybercrime.
Almost 70% of dark web forum hiring posts were looking for cybercriminals to do some website hacking.
Over 20% were looking for bad actors who could obtain specifically targeted user or client databases.
About 7% of forum posts were ads for hackers looking for work.< 2% of forum posts were made by cybercriminal developers who were selling the tools How do cybercrime-as-a-service freelancing, hiring and business transactions work on the dark web? Learn more>>
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Users primarily access the dark web using the TOR browser. More than 2 million active users connect to the dark web through the TOR browser every day.
| Country | Mean daily users |
| Russia | 9982 (21.80 %) |
| United States | 6324 (13.81 %) |
| Iran | 3324 (7.26 %) |
| Germany | 2096 (4.58 %) |
| Belarus | 1791 (3.91 %) |
| Brazil | 1711 (3.74 %) |
| India | 1487 (3.25 %) |
| China | 1391 (3.04 %) |
| United Kingdom | 1299 (2.84 %) |
| Turkey | 1019 (2.23 %) |