The most expensive item on the list is personal attacks, which usually involve defamation, legal damage or financial interference with the attack. Changing school grades is the next most expensive service. All of the hacks require payment up front, although some promise refunds if the hack fails.

Part of the reason cybercriminals are transitioning from the dark web to Telegram is the anonymity offered by the encrypted chat tool, with links to Telegram groups or channels shared within dark web forums jumping from 172,035 the previous year to more than 1 million by 2021.

Parents quickly learn that the solution to these problems may fall to them. Schools may not even know if they have been hacked, or if these hackers have posted student information on the dark web.

According to a report released by blockchain data platform Chainalysis, more than $2.2 billion worth of virtual currency was sent from Chinese crypto-virtual currency addresses to addresses linked to illegal activities such as fraud and dark web operations between April 2019 and June 2021.

As the incidence of advanced sustainability attacks (APTs) continues to rise, these threats can move laterally across an infected enterprise intranet, with one employee's credentials being enough for a hacker to wreak havoc on an entire enterprise.

A former FBI agent who specializes in cybersecurity explores the dark web to show how criminals are exploiting people's information in various marketplaces.

Japanese media are paranoid about the Chinese dark web, claiming that users on the Chinese dark web trade hacking skills and seek to invade Japanese and Korean websites.

There is a good reason why the dark web marketplace Hydra is thriving in Russia, mainly because of Putin's protection.

Researchers are discovering an uptick in activity on dark web forums that includes buying and selling black hat hacking services. 90% of the activity on these forums is from people looking to hire hackers to infiltrate websites and steal databases.

Notable corporations and organizations like NASA, McDonald’s, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Lockheed Martin, even cybersecurity companies FireEye and SolarWinds have all been victims to serious breaches in 2020 alone.