The internet is a vast realm that extends far beyond the surface web we commonly explore. Beneath the surface lies the darknet, a hidden network that poses significant challenges but also holds immense potential for open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigations.
The DarkOwl team has made many recent products. We highlight some of these below.
DarkOwl’s robust darknet data enables our customer, Silobreaker, to provide their customers enriched monitoring of deep, dark web and dark web adjacent sites to help identify risk at scale and drive better decision-making.
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.
DarkOwl Vision UI’s “Direct to Darknet” feature enables end-users to safely and securely jump from a DarkOwl Vision search result directly to any live Onion V3 domain or clearnet domain.
Direct to Darknet is a feature within Vision UI that allows users to further investigate Vision UI search results on the actual darknet site. This feature can be helpful for an investigation to view the original website, view images or advertisements that may be on the sites, take a screenshot for reporting, and more. Direct to Darknet enables teams to further uncover actionable intelligence and strengthen their investigation and research.
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.
DarkOwl, a leading provider of darknet data solutions, is thrilled to announce the launch of its Darknet Services, empowering organizations to advance their darknet investigations and monitoring with DarkOwl analyst expertise.
DarkOwl’s Darknet Services offer customizable, tailored, expert analyst support to enrich darknet data and provide customers with investigative reconnaissance, darknet monitoring, data acquisition and brand protection.
Key features and benefits of DarkOwl’s Darknet Services include:
Mark Turnage, CEO of DarkOwl states, “We are excited to introduce Darknet Services, which marks a significant milestone for DarkOwl and the darknet threat intelligence community. With Darknet Services, businesses can now gain a deeper understanding of the darknet landscape, arming them with invaluable insights that can help prevent devastating attacks and inform decisions to safeguard their digital assets.”
Accessing and analyzing data from the darknet is challenging, even for the most experienced of analysts. DarkOwl is the darknet expert, with access to the largest database of darknet and darknet adjacent content. Our customizable service options allow customers to leverage our in-house expertise to save time, keep their employees safe, and fulfill the need for actionable threat intelligence. Let us be an extension of your team.
With cyberattacks increasingly on the rise, organizations need better intelligence to safeguard themselves, employees and customers from incidents such as data breaches and ransomware attacks. This rise in illicit cyber activity only increases the need to protect against and determine the likelihood of these attacks.
DarkSonar, a relative risk rating based on darknet intelligence, measures an organization’s credential exposure on the darknet. DarkSonar enables companies to model risk, understand their weaknesses and anticipate potential cyber incidents. In turn, organizations are able to take mitigating actions to protect themselves from loss of data, profits, and brand reputation.
Denver, Colorado, USA – DarkOwl today announced the release of a new product, DarkSonar API, to help organizations better assess and track their potential cyber risk based on the nature of its exposure on the darknet.
Built on DarkOwl’s proprietary Entity dataset, DarkSonar generates a risk rating that is unique to each company. The algorithm used to generate these signals takes into account key quantitative and qualitative factors over time of organizational exposure of email addresses with associated passwords, and weights each signal accordingly. The result is a quantifiable risk indicator that can help companies and organizations monitor and potentially predict cyberattacks.
In testing internally and with beta partners in the insurtech and third-party risk industries, DarkOwl found an elevated DarkSonar score in the months before a cyberattack in approximately 75% of the cases where a company publicly acknowledged a breach. Depending on the companies and the nature of the attacks this percentage was as high as 85% in some instances.
“The darknet contains data critical to understanding criminal behavior and security risk,” said Mark Turnage, CEO of DarkOwl. “To develop DarkSonar, we looked at our own vast dataset of darknet content and focused on what has proven to be the number one attack vector for threat actors—namely credentials with passwords. In doing so, we saw that the magnitude of a company’s credential exposure within our database, and the real-life cyberattacks they experience, have a high correlation. This suggests that DarkSonar has not only a monitoring use, but may also have some predictive qualities. It is a valuable tool every threat intelligence team should use and have available.”
DarkOwl’s partner, SecurityScorecard, also expressed the importance of such a tool – even for small businesses. “We recently conducted research with an independent cyber research institute and found that 98% of organizations have vendor relationships with at least one third-party that has experienced a breach in the last two years,” said Alex Rich, VP of Alliances & Channels at SecurityScorecard. “This only reinforces the need for security teams to prioritize maintaining insight into their entire digital ecosystem, including their supply chain. DarkSonar offers a unique way to signal such risks, which is important for businesses of all sizes.”
DarkSonar API was built to be utilized for self-risk assessments, brand monitoring, vendor risk management, and cyber underwriting and risk rating. As supply chain compromise becomes an increasingly prevalent problem, DarkSonar is a means to continually monitor for third-party risk.
