March 07, 2024

DarkOwl, the leading provider of darknet data, announces a groundbreaking upgrade to its platform, empowering users with unparalleled insights into darknet forums. The new forum structuring feature represents a significant leap forward in data analysis, streamlining the user experience and enhancing the ability to extract actionable intelligence. 

The evolution to a more sophisticated approach allows users to navigate darknet discussions like never before. DarkOwl has enabled clients to reconstruct conversations in chronological order accurately and effortlessly, enhanced search capabilities, and streamlined navigation empowering clients to uncover critical insights with ease. 

The ability to access forum data, which could cover a range of discussions from threat actors on leaks, hacking, fraud and more, in a structured format is vital for organizations seeking to fortify their cybersecurity defenses and stay ahead of emerging threats. In addition, forum usernames and enhanced user search capabilities allows for deeper social and threat actor analysis, enabling clients to track threat actors’ activities across multiple threads and investigate all their communications across a particular forum. This enhances analysts’ ability to connect disparate pieces of information and identify emerging trends or patterns. 

DarkOwl’s Director of Product, Sarah Prime, expressed her enthusiasm about this product enhancement, stating, “With DarkOwl’s enhanced forum structuring, analysts can see posts and usernames in the context of a full threads, leading to better threat detection and mitigation strategies. We are excited about how this will help our clients and look forward to continuing rolling out updates that we know will set our product apart.” 

About DarkOwl
DarkOwl uses machine learning and human analysts to collect automatically, continuously, and anonymously, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. DarkOwl is unique not only in the depth and breadth of its darknet data, but also in the relevance and searchability of its data, its investigation tools, and its passionate customer service. DarkOwl data is ethically and safely collected from the darknet, allowing users secure and anonymous access to information and threats relevant to their mission. For more information, visit www.darkowl.com.

November 20, 2023

Eye Security, a leader in cyber protection for European businesses, is excited to partner with DarkOwl, the leading provider of darknet data. This strategic partnership will allow Eye Security to better assess customer risks and increase their security posture to proactively prevent cyber incidents.

European mid-market businesses are finding themselves vulnerable to cyberattacks and targets of threat actors more frequently than ever. Eye Security, with its proactive risk assessment approach and data aggregation capabilities, will collaborate with DarkOwl to gather critical intelligence from the dark web, enhancing their customers’ security posture and addressing the challenges faced by non-enterprise businesses. To achieve this, Eye Security aggregates large amounts of data to provide actionable advice for customers.

Due to the dark web’s anonymous and privacy-centric nature, it facilitates a complex ecosystem of cybercrime and is a thriving ecosystem within the global internet infrastructure that many organizations struggle to incorporate into their security posture. However, it is an increasingly vital component for organizations with forward-thinking strategies. DarkOwl enables Eye Security to gather intelligence on malicious activity affecting clients, whether it be credential leaks to prevent business account compromise, the presence of customer data, or to enrich threat intelligence.

Mark Turnage, CEO of DarkOwl, stated “This partnership aligns perfectly with DarkOwl’s mission to empower organizations with the most comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. Together, we are committed to ensuring that European businesses – also those without cyber expertise –have the support they need to defend against evolving cyber threats.”

With the combined expertise of Eye Security and DarkOwl, this partnership will empower organizations in the region with a more comprehensive approach to protecting their digital assets and defending against cyberattacks. Cas Bilstra, Director of Intelligence at Eye Security: “We are thrilled to integrate dark web intelligence into our cyber security and incident response services, enabling us to safeguard our customers more effectively by providing increased visibility and delivering valuable actionable insights.”

About Eye Security
Eye Security was set up in 2020 by Piet Kerkhofs (CTO), Vincent van de Ven (COO) and Job Kuijpers (CEO). After years spent working for the Dutch intelligence and security services (AIVD and MIVD), they are now focusing on using their knowledge and expertise to protect European businesses against cyber attacks. Eye Security’s effective and affordable total solution, combined with cyber insurance, has made cyber threat manageable for businesses of every size. Eye Security now has a team of 100+ people from both cyber security and insurance industries, all of whom share a passion for fighting (digital) crime. Eye Security operates in Europe with offices across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and through its partners. For more information, visit www.eye.security.

About DarkOwl
DarkOwl uses machine learning and human analysts to collect automatically, continuously, and anonymously, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. DarkOwl is unique not only in the depth and breadth of its darknet data, but also in the relevance and searchability of its data, its investigation tools, and its passionate customer service. DarkOwl data is ethically and safely collected from the darknet, allowing users secure and anonymous access to information and threats relevant to their mission. For more information, visit www.darkowl.com.

November 09, 2023

Blackbird.AI extends its leadership position in narrative intelligence to gain insight into narrative attacks, misinformation, and disinformation across the dark web.

Blackbird.AI, the leader in AI-driven Narrative and Risk Intelligence, today announced a partnership with DarkOwl, the leading provider of Darknet Data, to enable organizations to identify narrative attacks across the dark web. This expands Blackbird.AI’s comprehensive visibility of narrative attacks that today include social media, news, forums, podcasts, and more. 

Darknet and messaging apps are historically complex, noisy, and opaque social platforms frequently used by bad actors to develop and deploy harmful narratives and cyber attacks. Through this partnership, Blackbird.AI’s Narrative Intelligence Platform, combined with DarkOwl’s unparalleled dark web discovery capabilities, organizations gain valuable insights that have historically been difficult for cyber and communications professionals to see and protect themselves against. Darknet and messaging app data from the DarkOwl collaboration will also facilitate detailed reporting from Blackbird.AI’s RAV3N Narrative Intelligence and Research Team.

Narrative attacks are a new blind spot for organizations across the globe. Narratives are ‘any association that shapes perception about a person, place or thing in the information ecosystem.’ The risk comes when narrative attacks scale and turn harmful, creating financial and reputational harm. An estimated $78B a year is lost due to narrative attacks, with publicly traded companies losing approximately $39 billion annually due to disinformation-related stock market losses. 

“Our Constellation Narrative Intelligence Platform is designed to detect narrative attacks and manipulation, including misinformation and disinformation,” said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “Our partnership with DarkOwl substantially expands our ability to help organizations protect themselves from harmful narratives being propagated across the darknet. Giving our customers the ability to identify these narratives for better strategic decision-making is incredibly powerful and necessary where a single narrative could inflict significant financial and reputational harm.”

Getting early knowledge about emerging narrative attacks is a critical need to inform key stakeholders and the executive team to determine what countermeasures they can put in place to minimize the impact of the attacks. Narrative attack use-case examples include Geopolitical Risk, Breaches, Perception Attacks, Insider Threats, Supply Chain Risk, Critical Manufacturing, Critical Infrastructure, Due Diligence / M&A / Corporate Intelligence, Physical Security, Crisis Management, Stock Manipulation, Brand Reputation/Risk, and Financial Market Exposure. 

“DarkOwl offers the world’s largest commercially available database of information continuously collected from the darknet, enabling Blackbird.AI and their customers the ability to turn this data into a powerful tool to identify narrative risks at scale and drive better decision-making,” said Mark Turnage, CEO of Dark Owl. “Our darknet datasets are updated from tens of thousands of sites across multiple darknets daily and will be made available through Blackbird.AI’s Constellation Platform, allowing their users to parse and analyze the data for specific narrative attack use cases.”

To learn more about the partnership, see the fireside chat between the companies ’ CEOs and corresponding blogs from DarkOwl and Blackbird.AI.

About Blackbird.AI

BLACKBIRD.AI protects organizations from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm. Powered by our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform, Constellation, organizations can proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. Blackbird.AI was founded by a diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals with a mission to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. Learn more at Blackbird.AI.  

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl is the industry’s leading provider of darknet data. We offer the world’s largest commercially available database of information collected from the darknet. Using machine learning and human analysts, we automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect and index darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. Our platform collects and stores data in near real-time, allowing darknet sites that frequently change location and availability to be queried safely and securely without accessing the darknet itself. Customers can turn this data into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision-making. For more information, contact DarkOwl.

November 08, 2023

DarkOwl is thrilled to announce the launch of Actor Explore, an exciting new addition to our Vision UI platform that provides invaluable insights into cyber threat actors. This latest feature is designed to empower security professionals, researchers, and organizations with analyst curated information about threat actors, enhancing their ability to understand and combat cybersecurity threats effectively.

With Actor Explore, access to comprehensive threat actor information is just a click away. Navigating the cyber threat actor landscape has never been easier. Each actor profile in Actor Explore includes a detailed dossier, offering an in-depth overview of the threat actor. Additionally, DarkOwl analysts provide extensive information such as darknet fingerprints, targets, tools, CVEs, contact information, and more when available. Actor Explore connects this information to our other data sets, including leak sites, ransomware sites, alias, cryptocurrency, etcetera that actors are associated with. This wealth of data enables users to gain a profound understanding of the threat actors, their tactics, and the potential risks they pose.

Cyber threats are continually evolving, and so are the threat actors behind them. The collection consists of threat actors in several categories, including: state-sponsored, cybercrime-focused, ransomware groups, access brokers, exploit brokers and buyers, critical infrastructure attackers, and more. Actor Explore will be regularly updated with new information and actors, prioritizing client needs, ensuring that users have access to the latest intelligence to bolster their cybersecurity efforts and research.

DarkOwl’s Director of Product, Sarah Prime, expressed their enthusiasm about the launch, stating, “We believe this new feature will give our users insight about important threat actors and provide pivot points to where they appear in the darknet. We are committed to providing the most comprehensive darknet dataset, along with context and enrichment that helps our users understand evolving cyber threats.”

About DarkOwl
DarkOwl uses machine learning and human analysts to collect automatically, continuously, and anonymously, index and rank darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data that allows for simplicity in searching. DarkOwl is unique not only in the depth and breadth of its darknet data, but also in the relevance and searchability of its data, its investigation tools, and its passionate customer service. DarkOwl data is ethically and safely collected from the darknet, allowing users secure and anonymous access to information and threats relevant to their mission. For more information, visit www.darkowl.com.

September 12, 2023

Doppel, a key innovator in digital risk protection, and DarkOwl, the leading provider of darknet data, are thrilled to announce their strategic partnership to provide businesses and organizations with actionable intelligence to protect brands from phishing, counterfeiting, piracy and other digital threats worldwide.

In an increasingly interconnected digital world, where the internet is an integral part of everyone’s personal life and of every organization, the need for comprehensive, actionable threat intelligence has never been more critical. As cyber threat actors evolve in sophistication and cyberattacks increase in frequency, the ability to proactively identify emerging threats is essential to protecting a company’s brand, reputation, clients, and employees.

Through this partnership, Doppel will integrate DarkOwl’s industry-leading darknet intelligence capabilities into its product suite, enhancing its ability to proactively detect and mitigate cyber threats. DarkOwl’s unparalleled access to the darknet, coupled with Doppel’s cutting-edge AI-powered threat detection, will empower organizations to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals.

“We are excited to collaborate with DarkOwl to provide our client base with a comprehensive and holistic digital risk protection solution,” said Kevin Tian, Co-Founder and CEO of Doppel. “Integrating DarkOwl’s darknet data will give our clients further visibility into potential threats, enabling them to proactively secure their assets and mitigate threats.”

DarkOwl’s CEO, Mark Turnage, shared “Partnering with Doppel aligns with our mission to enable organizations with the resources necessary to counteract cyber threats. The combination of DarkOwl’s near-real time darknet data insights and Doppel’s cybersecurity capabilities will enable brands to identify risks and protect themselves against emerging threats.”

About Doppel

Doppel is the leading solution in modern digital risk protection for trusted brands. Our state-of-the-art AI scans over 10 million entities daily across the web, dark web, social media, and app stores, offering unparalleled breadth in detecting digital threats, including piracy, counterfeiting, phishing scams, executive impersonators, and more. Seamless integrations with domain registrars, web hosts, browsers, social media platforms, and digital marketplaces power real-time, continuous, and automated protection, making Doppel the best defense for your organization and your reputation. For more information, check out www.doppel.com.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl is the industry’s leading provider of darknet data. We offer the world’s largest commercially available database of information collected from the darknet. Using machine learning and human analysts, we automatically, continuously, and anonymously collect and index darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. Our platform collects and stores data in near real-time, allowing darknet sites that frequently change location and availability to be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself. Customers are able to turn this data into a powerful tool to identify risk at scale and drive better decision making. For more information, contact DarkOwl.