The Dark Web Economy: How Hackers Monetise Your Breach
In an age of relentless digital transformation, your organisation’s data is currency — and hackers are the brokers. Beneath the surface of the internet lies a thriving, unregulated marketplace known as the Dark Web — a parallel economy where breached, stolen credentials, intellectual property, zero-day exploits, and malware-as-a-service offerings change hands like commodities.
The Dark Web is a portion of the internet that is purposefully hidden and inaccessible via standard web browsers. It requires anonymising tools such as Tor or I2P to access, and it hosts forums, marketplaces, and communication channels used for everything from whistleblowing to cybercrime.