The Deep Web
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- The provision of services, as well as the way criminals operate in the underground, have gone through many changes over the years to cater to the market’s different infrastructure demands.Underground platforms are part of a mature ecosystem for trading cybercrime goods and services. How does a capable hosting infrastructure allow illicit activities to thrive?While cybercriminals seem to be shying away from data theft to outright extortion as their main revenue source (cue in ransomware), stealing personal information and using or selling it for further cybercriminal acts is still a serious problem.Some of the more notable facts and numbers taken from the Trend Micro research into the French underground.Trend Micro’s Senior Director for Threat Research, Martin Roesler discusses Deep Web concepts, its challenges to law enforcement, and why it will continue to be used as a platform for anonymity.Some of the most interesting numbers gathered from Trend Micro's latest research into the Deep Web, including prices of illegal goods and criminal services, and the value of hacked accounts.An in-depth look into the duality of the Deep Web—how its anonymity allows free communication and the trade of illegal goods and services. See how it impacts the real world today, and how it could evolve over the next few years.For most users, the Visible Web is all that they'll ever need, where information, products, and services can be readily accessed or searched for. But little is known about the Deep Web. What is it? How does it work? Is it legal? Is it real?A 16-month trial unprecedented in magnitude in the history of global judicial systems culminated in a decision that found the man behind the Silk Road guilty of seven charges. Here's a timeline of how the deep web has evolved through the years.
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