Most Traded on the Dark Web:Cannabis,Pharmaceuticals and MDMA
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/24/2015 06:07 AM
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What are the most traded items selling on the dark web? Would you be surprised to learn the three top items are cannabis, pharmaceuticals and MDMA.
Percentage wise, they constitute 63% of all items sold, according to a recent study by Trend Micro. LSD, meth, mushrooms, heroine, seeds, video games and stolen account information equally account for the remaining nearly 37 percent.
Christopher Budd, global threat communications manager at Trend Micro, said: “well over a quarter of the linkages from the dark web to the surface web led back to child exploitation sites.”
“If you take down one marketplace that doesn't stop this, you take one down and one pops back up,” he said.
Money laundering services and malware such as the banking Trojan VAWTRAK and Cryptolocker were in abundance on the dark web.
Budd said: “A year ago Cryptolocker was pretty dormant but in the past four to six months it's made a comeback. The tools to get regular people onto the deep web have improved," making it easier for criminals to, for example, instruct victims on how to connect to pay ransoms that would be difficult for authorities to trace."
“The drugs and the assassinations get the headlines but there's more to it,” Budd said. “It isn't all about crime; the deep web is also a place where people go to speak with anonymity about politics or news and other interests.”
Of the websites viewed in the report, 41.4 percent of the of the URLs were in Russian while 40.74 percent were in English.
Source: SCMagazine
Percentage wise, they constitute 63% of all items sold, according to a recent study by Trend Micro. LSD, meth, mushrooms, heroine, seeds, video games and stolen account information equally account for the remaining nearly 37 percent.Christopher Budd, global threat communications manager at Trend Micro, said: “well over a quarter of the linkages from the dark web to the surface web led back to child exploitation sites.”
“If you take down one marketplace that doesn't stop this, you take one down and one pops back up,” he said.
Money laundering services and malware such as the banking Trojan VAWTRAK and Cryptolocker were in abundance on the dark web.
Budd said: “A year ago Cryptolocker was pretty dormant but in the past four to six months it's made a comeback. The tools to get regular people onto the deep web have improved," making it easier for criminals to, for example, instruct victims on how to connect to pay ransoms that would be difficult for authorities to trace."
“The drugs and the assassinations get the headlines but there's more to it,” Budd said. “It isn't all about crime; the deep web is also a place where people go to speak with anonymity about politics or news and other interests.”
Of the websites viewed in the report, 41.4 percent of the of the URLs were in Russian while 40.74 percent were in English.
Source: SCMagazine
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