It’s no secret the dark web is quickly becoming more expansive than the “regular” internet. This has caused many companies to wonder if they should start monitoring dark web activities. This article will serve as a guide for learning about the most common dark web monitoring tools and how you can get started using your own dark-web monitoring services.
The Dark Web is not as dangerous as people first thought. Instead it has become a marketplace for stolen information. While the dark web monitoring tools can be helpful at times, you want to make sure you choose the right one. Here are the best online dark web monitoring tools free.
LastPass
Protect your business from cyber-threats, without compromising ease of use. LastPass Business empowers employees to generate, secure, and share credentials seamlessly, while providing valuable insight and control to Admins and ensuring protection through LastPass’ zero-knowledge security infrastructure. Gain additional access and authentication features, such as single sign-on for simplified access to up to three cloud applications and multi-factor authentication (MFA) that secures the LastPass vault and single sign-on applications.
Webz.io
Webz.io is the leading provider of machine-defined web data. It transforms the vast pool of web data from across the open and dark web into structured web data feeds, ready for machines to consume. Using Webz.io’s data, enterprises, developers, and analysts can now unlock the raw potential of web data.
Defendify Cybersecurity Platform
Defendify is pioneering cybersecurity for organizations without security teams. Delivering multiple layers of protection, Defendify provides an all-in-one, easy-to-use platform designed to continuously strengthen cybersecurity across people, process, and technology. With Defendify, organizations can streamline cybersecurity assessments, testing, policies, training, detection and response in one consolidated and cost-effective cybersecurity solution backed by world-class support and expertise. Protect against sophisticated cyber threats with automated features including: • Cybersecurity Assessments • Technology & Data Use Policies • Incident Response Plans • Ethical Hacking (Penetration Testing) • Threat Alerts • Phishing Simulations • Cybersecurity Awareness Training Videos & Posters • Classroom Cybersecurity Training Tools • Stolen Password Scanning • Network Vulnerability Scanning • Website Scanning • Breach Detection & Response See Defendify in action at www.defendify.com/demo
CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon
Falcon X Recon is a research service that scours Dark Web sources for mentions of your company’s assets. These include brands, corporate identities, the email addresses of people within your business, and mentions of key executives and employees.
The information that you receive from this service offers a double check on PII security. Key information on your customers should be kept safe. However, if PII is stolen from your business, it is likely to end up for sale on the Dark Web. Knowledge of this leak should have been caught by your data loss prevention system. However, if you don’t have data protection in place, the Falcon X Recon service gives you a chance to catch up.
Falcon X Recon is a subscription service and part of the CrowdStrike family of products that are offered from their Falcon SaaS platform. You don’t have to download and install any software in order to use the Falcon X Recon service. You can start on a 15-day free trial.
Echosec Beacon
Echosec Beacon is a Dark Web scanner. It can hunt down compromised credentials, disclosed personal information and stolen financial data that is available in various locations on the internet.
This is an online service that operates like a search engine. The user enters a name, a social security number, or an email address and then searches through sources in Dark Web marketplace, social media sites, and forms to find incidences of those details up for sale, or openly appearing on free lists.
The tool will also look for websites that mention the named person – information about people is collected for “doxing,” which gathers information to enable a charlatan to either target or impersonate that person in a phishing attack.
The service can identify data breaches and search out malicious information stores that hold data on businesses as well as individuals.
DarkOwl Vision
Vision, by DarkOwl, is a Dark Web scan tool that indexes the content of malicious sites all over the World Wide Web to identify data stolen from its clients.
The Vision system searches for mentions of the client company’s domain and email addresses in hacker data exchanges. The search is an automated process. This information is constantly updated by repeated scans and those disclosures are made available in the dashboard for those subscribing companies to which the data pertains.
The DarkOwl vision system is integrated into a package of intelligence services, called Darkint Suite. Another element in this suite is Darkint Score, which is a vulnerability assessment of the client company’s exposure to Dark Web data loss.
Darkint Suite’s data feeds can be integrated into applications through an API. The DarkOwl service is a threat intelligence database; it does not monitor infrastructure or network traffic. Companies subscribing to DarkOwl will also need threat protection and data loss protection software to fully protect their systems.
SpyCloud ATO Prevention
SpyCloud offers two services for account takeover (ATO) prevention – one to cover the employees of companies and the other to protect the customers of online services.
ATO protection concentrates on protecting the accounts that businesses set up for access to their resources, such as network logins or user accounts at websites. A major part of the service involves detecting accounts that have already been compromised.
The ATO prevention service includes a cloud-based threat intelligence database, which warns clients of compromised accounts. The information on disclosed credentials is discovered by a Dark Web scanning tool. Other elements in the threat intelligence system include known sources of phishing and impersonation attacks, which gives the protecting agent software guidance on which incoming emails to block.
The service also proactively monitors Active Directory and sets up stronger password policies, such as password rotation and enforced password complexity.
Digital Shadows SearchLight
Digital Shadows is particularly concerned with protecting the brand and reputation of the companies that use its services. Rather than focusing on account protection, this service protects both the image and trade secrets of the companies that it serves.
For example, the SearchLight looks for company procedural documents, site plans, and internal memos that have found their way onto other sites that are known for trading in corporate data illegally. One incident that the Digital Shadows site recounts is its discovery of ATM designs that it alerted one of its clients about. That client was the bank that used the compromised ATM design.
Although the service doesn’t look for all user account details, it does scour illegal sites for the disclosure of privileged credentials, such as the usernames and passwords of network administrator or DBA accounts. Digital Shadows offers a 7-day free trial of SearchLight.
Threat Command by Rapid7
IntSights is the leading external threat intelligence and protection platform, designed to neutralize threats outside the wire. The IntSights solution suite equips cybersecurity teams worldwide to more effectively detect and prevent threats at their source before they even reach the perimeter. The founders are veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence units, where they acquired a deep understanding of the hacker mindset, as well as the most effective techniques to defend against it. IntSights is backed by Blackstone Group, Clearsky, Wipro Ventures, Tola Capital, Blumberg Capital, and others.
Conclusion:
The dark web is known as a place where criminals can buy anything from drugs to firearms without being tracked. In fact, the majority of sales on the dark web are illicit items. With this being said, it’s no surprise that there are many tools for dark web monitoring available.