Dark Web Monitoring: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This whitepaper provides a high-level overview of the dark and deep web criminal ecosystem, recounting major marketplace takedowns, ongoing criminal services (marketplaces, AVCs, bulletproof hosting, money laundering, malware infrastructure), and emerging trends such as credential markets (Genesis) and automated fraud tools; it then prescribes focused dark-web monitoring use cases—threat actor tracking, exposed credentials, and fraud detection—and describes ReliaQuest’s Digital Risk Protection capabilities and indexed coverage.