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| Source: Trend Micro website. |
These are some of the findings from Trend Micro, which has released a paper, Below the Surface: Exploring the Deep Web, explaining the criminal activity that takes place in the Deep Web.
Key findings include:
Key findings include:
· Light drugs were the most-exchanged goods. This was followed by pharmaceutical products, hard drugs, pirated games and online accounts.
· Over 8,700 suspicious pages were identified in the Deep Web, including those that host phishing kits, malware or drive-by downloads, or those that run shady marketplaces (used to trade hacking tools, etc.).
o Child exploitation ranked 3rd at 26.07% out of the “suspicious” pages category, with proxy avoidance (31.69%) (URLs that provide VPN access or ways to avoid corporate firewalls) coming in second, and disease vectors coming in first at 33.74%.
· Bitcoin is frequently used when purchasing illegal goods and services due to its anonymous transactions. Bitcoin-laundering services have surfaced to help increase the anonymity of moving money throughout the Bitcoin system. The process involves “mixing” Bitcoins—transferring them through a network of microtransactions before returning them. In the process, the user ends up with the same amount of money (normally, minus a small handling fee) but a transaction trail that is substantially harder to track.
· Leaked details of government, law enforcement, and celebrities: Attackers and sometimes even insiders, often dox (the act of researching and broadcasting an individual’s personally identifiable information such as dates of birth, social security numbers, personal email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, and more) of companies, celebrities, and other public figures.
· Assassination services for hire can also be found in the Deep Web, with prices varying based on the preferred manner of death or injury and the target’s status.
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