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Are your company’s user credentials on the dark web? Thousands of email addresses, passwords and other sensitive data land on the dark web every day, creating risks for your business — and you may not know about a vulnerability until it’s too late.

Tigerhawk Dark Web ensures the greatest amount of protection with 24/7/365 human and machine-powered monitoring of business and personal credentials, including domains, IP addresses and email addresses.

We uncover your compromised credentials in dark web markets, data dumps and other sources, and alert you to trouble fast, giving you the advantage to act before cybercriminals do.

Don’t make decisions about your organization’s security posture until you see these essential Dark Web facts.

• 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 addition to information, Dark Web markets also deal in other nefarious things like criminal services, espionage, illegal collectibles or animals, human trafficking, credit card numbers, drugs, guns, counterfeit money, stolen goods, cybercrime software, cracked credentials and other illicit items. Cybercriminals also enjoy gambling and all sorts of strange things are in the pot at dark web online poker games.

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

Learn more about:

• How do cybercrime-as-a-service freelancing, hiring and business transactions work on the dark web? Learn more>>
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Who is Using the Dark Web & Why?

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.