Understanding Dark Web

According to latest news, the US Department of Justice has arrested a 23-year-old man accused of operating the dark web drug marketplace Incognito Market. The platform sold over $100 million worth of narcotics worldwide, connecting customers with vendors and earning 5% of every sale. Investigators found that even prescription medication advertised as authentic on the site could not be trusted. An undercover law enforcement agent bought tablets on Incognito Market in November 2023, which were actually fentanyl. If found guilty, the man faces a mandatory life sentence, a maximum life sentence for narcotics conspiracy, 20 years for money laundering, and five years for conspiracy to sell adulterated and misbranded medication (CLULEY, 2024). If you are regularly reading the cyber world's news, it is always in the headline that cybercriminals are threatening organizations that they will sell critical exploits on the dark web. A portion of the Internet known as the "Dark Web" is inaccessible with a typical web browser and is not indexed by search engines like Google. Double extortion ransomware gained popularity in 2021. After requesting payment to receive the decryption key required to restore the data, cybercriminals may threaten to post the content for sale on the dark web. It means that the data that an organization plans to use for double extortion is copied before it is encrypted (Pawar, 2023). Basically, there are three categories into internet - the surface web, deep web, and black web. We will explore more about dark web in this....

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Dr. Shekhar Pawar