THREAT ACTOR TRENDS FROM THE DEEP & DARK WEB

With the breakneck pace of activity evolving on the cybercriminal underground, a lot can happen in a calendar year. To assist security teams with their ongoing security strategies, our complete collection of over 3.65billion intelligence items collected from the deep, dark and clear web in 2022 has been analyzed and evaluated to deliver comprehensive insights into the latest threat actor trends and developments.

The State of the Underground 2023 takes a deep dive into changing threat actor tactics and discusses the impact of new technologies on the threat landscape, including:

• Trends in credit card fraud
• Cryptocurrency observations
• The use of messaging platforms in the underground
• How AI developments are impacting the barriers of entry to cybercrime
• The evolution of initial access broker markets
• The rise of cybercriminal “as-a-service” activities
• Ransomware trends

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