Dark web threats and dark market predictions for 2024

This report reviews 2023 cybercrime and dark web trends, confirming increased personal data leaks and credential exposure, growth in malware-as-a-service (e.g., BunnyLoader, Mystic Stealer) and RedLine logs, rising ransomware leak-site posts, and more fake hack claims, while noting credentials as a common intrusion vector; it then predicts for 2024 a surge in AV-evasion cryptors, continued evolution of loader malware (fileless execution, persistence, Golang/Rust), expansion of crypto-asset drainers, sustained malvertising (“black traffic”) campaigns, and growing sophistication and demand for Bitcoin mixers/cleaning services.