What Is The Darknet?
The darknet is a hidden, encrypted part of the internet inaccessible via conventional search engines. It's home to cybercriminals trading stolen credentials, ransomware-as-a-service sites, and credential stuffing forums.
Darknet Monitoring Explained
Learn how DarkScout tracks restricted sources and surfaces relevant exposure signals from dark web forums and marketplaces.
Key Concepts
Monitoring Tools
DarkScout uses advanced automated reconnaissance robots and sophisticated scrapers to infiltrate criminal forums, ransomware blogs, and black markets. Monitors hundreds of dark web sources continuously.
Identifying Exposed Data
Systematically tracks indicators of compromise including leaked passwords, compromised PII, exposed API keys, database dumps, and threat actor discussions targeting your business.
Exposure Reports & Analytics
Provides dynamic risk scores measuring external risk exposure. Includes trend analysis to monitor changes in risk posture and graphical views of your external attack surface over time.
How Darknet Monitoring Works
DarkScout continuously collects and analyzes darknet signals, then transforms them into actionable alerts.
Detect
Provides 24/7/365 monitoring of underground markets, crime forums, ransomware leak sites, and hacker communities. Uses machine learning to find hidden mentions and entity resolution to link scattered data.
Alert
Delivers intelligent alerts tiered by severity based on criticality of exposed data and immediacy of exploitation risk. Differentiates between generic chatter and high-priority credential dumps.
Mitigate
Offers specific remediation advice including identifying probable source of exfiltration, technical remediation steps, ready-to-run response playbooks, and post-remediation verification scanning.
