

Your technology is enabling child abusers to be far more bold,'" said Andrew Lewman, now vice president of Owl Cybersecurity, a Denver company. law enforcement came to me my first year and said, 'Look, there's child abuse on your sites. That difficulty is what makes the dark web a hub for the most foul types of crime. It is a challenge to configure the software and find where one wants to browse. Those visiting the dark web must employ special web software, like The Onion Router (Tor) or I2P, both of which encrypt and give anonymity to the user and hide the location of everything visited. cybersecurity companies focus on the dark web, primarily working for retailers, banks and other firms concerned that cybercriminal gangs are trafficking there in consumer data that they've obtained through breaches.Ī small and secretive corner of the internet, the dark web cannot be accessed by traditional search engines, such as Google, Bing or Yahoo. "All us work in partnership with law enforcement, when possible and necessary, to combat this," said Danny Rogers, chief executive of Terbium Labs, a Baltimore company that specializes in automated combing of the dark web.Ī handful of U.S. What happens on the dark web is so ugly that cybersecurity firms that comb its data routinely share the information with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Pedophiles and malware merchants lurk in its confines alongside opioid dealers and human traffickers. Rogue hackers sell stolen credit card information there, and gun runners peddle every variety of weapon.
