- The Internet we use is known as Surface Web and it is only 4% of Total Internet.
- The extension of Dark Web Sites is .onion and can only be accessed through TOR Browser.
- There is also a Dark Web version of Facebook.
- Dark Web activity has increased by 300% in the last 3 years.
- Over 30% of North Americans access the Dark Web regularly.
- In 2020, more than 22 billion new records were added to the Dark Web.
- 26 Million Passwords that belong to employees at Fortune 1000 companies were available readily on Dark Web.
- Hackers attack every 39 seconds, on average 2244 times a day.
- 60% of the information available on the Dark Web could potentially harm Enterprises.
In a recent breakdown of the activity in popular Dark Web forums, researchers noted:
- An estimated 90% of posts on Dark Web forums are from buyers looking to contract someone for cybercrimes.
- Almost 70% of Dark Web forum hiring posts were looking for Cyber Criminals to do some website hacking.
- Over 20% were looking for bad people who could obtain specifically targeted user or client databases.
- About 7% of the forum posts were ads for hackers looking for work.
- 2% of forum posts were made by cybercriminals developers who were selling the tools.
- The Dark Web makes up only a small portion of the Deep Web.
- Despite its name, not all occupants or activities of the dark web are illegal.
- The Dark Web's primary currency is Bitcoin, although other types of cryptocurrencies are sometimes an option.