The dark web has a huge market. This is what sells.
Entering the dark web is not easy. You need Tor, and high security measures. Even then, the forums worth joining don't let you in easily. Reputable forums require recommendations from well-known members, Bitcoin deposits, and proof of your identity.In 2021, Lindsey Kay was one of the first to reverse engineer and publicly disclose a new type of ransomware. She did so before the group behind him, Black Matter, began operations. how? She found it by monitoring dark web forums where the group was secretly recruiting members.
This book takes you on a tour of that world, and reveals to you the code of the tools you found there.Raccoon Stealer - The credential stealing software behind the theft of hundreds of millions of passwords, and the SQL queries it uses to extract them directly from your browser
Trick Bot - A banking Trojan that has infected millions of Windows devices, how it infiltrates Chrome and disables functions that handle your banking trafficCerberus - an Android banking trojan sold on dark web forums for $200 a month, and how it places a fake login page on top of your real banking app
LockBit - One of the most widespread ransomware operations in history, how it disables backup services, deletes shadow backups, and pushes a group policy update to every machine on the domain before encryption beginsMirai - the botnet that caused half the internet to go out in 2016, and how it was able to find and infect new devices to expand its reach
Sodinokibi/REvil and ALPHV - two of the most destructive ransomware operations ever, with partner recruitment posts down to the encryption code.
Threat reports tell you what happened. This book shows you how it happened.
