what is the darknet basically if you
think about it you can separate the
intern into three different levels the
clear net the deep web and the dark net
the clear net is everything you can find
on Google or any search engine the deep
web would be something you can reach but
you can't really access because there's
a username and password and then there's
the darknet
so now we're on the darknet on tour
there are a lot of different types of
darknets tour is one there are many
others and the darknet is used in order
to remain anonymous online but
unfortunately it's also been used a lot
by criminals because it guarantees their
anonymity and their security and allows
them to collaborate in a way that does
not expose them in terms of what is sold
in the underground right now we're
looking at different types of drugs
which is one of the main businesses in
the criminal underground in the darknet
we have fake identities passports IDs
driver's license these help facilitate
online fraud other things that we can
see in the underground counterfeit money
renting the services of hackers but one
of the biggest things that happens in
the criminal underground is underground
stores which sell goods and services as
well from fraud related topics to
weapons to jewelry to digital products
and healthcare records which is on the
rise with criminals
over a hundred million records were
stolen last year so criminals are now
looking into ways that they can monetize
and gain access into these records to
perform online fraud we're now in an
underground German forum where there's a
lot of collaboration between criminals
there's one thing we have to keep in
mind
money breaks all barriers so criminals
from all over the world cooperate and
share information to run these attacks
if you are a European attacker and you
are hacking a u.s. account you'd
probably want to have somebody in the
u.s. helping you and they do it very
fast