Home Blog The Dark Web and Underground Markets The Dark Web and Underground Markets BlueVoyant Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn “Life in the SOC” is a Blog Series that shares experiences of the BlueVoyant SOC defending against the current and prevalent attacks encountered by our clients. The blogs discuss successful detection, response and mitigation actions that can improve your defensive capabilities. BlueVoyant’s research and monitoring of dark web and underground markets revealed some notable findings during the month of August. Conversations of interest to the finance sector demonstrated that forums of this sort frequently rise and fall in popularity. Between July and August of 2019, BlueVoyant observed massive swings in some of the top forums with finance-related conversations. The August graph (below), based on overall percentage, identifies the top dark web forums and underground markets discussing targets in the financial sector. The trend graph (below) highlights the difference of the top 10 underground forums and marketplaces between July and August 2019. Interestingly, in the discussions of financial targets, BlueVoyant saw PayPal knocked out of the top spot during the month of August. BINs took the top spot, followed by Card Verification Values (CVV). PayPal came in at number 3 with 15% of the tracked conversations. At this time, the reason is unknown. The graph below represents the top targets of discussions related to financial interests, followed by a graph displaying the trends from July to August. Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Related reading Ransomware Why Are the Consequences of Ransomware Attacks Rarely Fully Understood? May 24, 2022 According to BlueVoyant’s ransomware research, unsuspecting victims suffer the consequences, such as layoffs, medical treatment delays, travel… Read more Ransomware From Ransomware to the U.K.’s Cybersecurity Strategy May 20, 2022 In the past couple of years, ransomware attacks have doubled and – in some instances – quadrupled in frequency, as noted in BlueVoyant’s Ransomware… Read more Microsoft Security BlueVoyant Awarded L4 Cloud Security Rockstar Team from Microsoft Private Security Community May 17, 2022 This week, Caleb Freitas and Mona Ghadiri received the L4 Cloud Security Rockstar Team award on behalf of BlueVoyant. Read more
BlueVoyant Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn “Life in the SOC” is a Blog Series that shares experiences of the BlueVoyant SOC defending against the current and prevalent attacks encountered by our clients. The blogs discuss successful detection, response and mitigation actions that can improve your defensive capabilities. BlueVoyant’s research and monitoring of dark web and underground markets revealed some notable findings during the month of August. Conversations of interest to the finance sector demonstrated that forums of this sort frequently rise and fall in popularity. Between July and August of 2019, BlueVoyant observed massive swings in some of the top forums with finance-related conversations. The August graph (below), based on overall percentage, identifies the top dark web forums and underground markets discussing targets in the financial sector. The trend graph (below) highlights the difference of the top 10 underground forums and marketplaces between July and August 2019. Interestingly, in the discussions of financial targets, BlueVoyant saw PayPal knocked out of the top spot during the month of August. BINs took the top spot, followed by Card Verification Values (CVV). PayPal came in at number 3 with 15% of the tracked conversations. At this time, the reason is unknown. The graph below represents the top targets of discussions related to financial interests, followed by a graph displaying the trends from July to August. Share: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Related reading Ransomware Why Are the Consequences of Ransomware Attacks Rarely Fully Understood? May 24, 2022 According to BlueVoyant’s ransomware research, unsuspecting victims suffer the consequences, such as layoffs, medical treatment delays, travel… Read more Ransomware From Ransomware to the U.K.’s Cybersecurity Strategy May 20, 2022 In the past couple of years, ransomware attacks have doubled and – in some instances – quadrupled in frequency, as noted in BlueVoyant’s Ransomware… Read more Microsoft Security BlueVoyant Awarded L4 Cloud Security Rockstar Team from Microsoft Private Security Community May 17, 2022 This week, Caleb Freitas and Mona Ghadiri received the L4 Cloud Security Rockstar Team award on behalf of BlueVoyant. Read more
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