Dark Web Monitoring
Ongoing scanning of criminal forums, marketplaces and leaked data dumps for an organization's exposed credentials, data or brand mentions.
Stolen passwords are a common route into email, CRM and ad accounts; early alerts on exposed credentials let a business reset access before attackers use it and show which staff or supplier accounts are most exposed.
A monitoring service watches the company's two email domains; an alert shows 14 staff addresses with passwords in a new breach dump, so IT forces resets, checks sign-in logs for the past 30 days and confirms MFA is enforced on each account.
Coverage of closed forums and private channels is partial and vendors rarely disclose it, so no alert does not mean no exposure. Monitoring detects leaks after they happen; it does not prevent them or remove data already sold.
Services crawl and collect data from criminal forums, marketplaces, chat channels and breach dumps, then match it against watched identifiers such as email domains, executive names, IP ranges or card numbers. Matches trigger alerts with context such as breach source and data type. Results feed Identity and Access Management (IAM) actions like password resets and session revocation, and help scope investigations of suspected Data Exfiltration.
Systems Architecture
CrowdStrike — What is dark web monitoring? — https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/threat-intelligence/dark-web-monitoring/; Have I Been Pwned — FAQs — https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs
