What is dark web monitoring?
Dark web monitoring is a solution that scans the dark web for company mentions and exposed data, such as credentials, domain mentions, phone numbers, and specific keywords. By cross-referencing your company’s assets against real-time data from cybercriminal sources, dark web monitoring can prevent simple data exposure from escalating into a serious cyber incident.
NordStellar continuously scans dark web forums, hacking communities, ransomware blogs, deep web search engines, Telegram channels, and illicit markets for your company’s assets. This way, dark web monitoring gives your security teams the necessary information to act quickly.
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How does the Nordstellar dark web monitoring work?
The platform continuously scans data from various deep and dark web sources, such as dark web forums, Telegram channels, and ransomware blogs.
Dark web monitoring includes watching out for specific keywords and mentions of the company’s assets, such as domains, email addresses, and phone numbers.
Create monitoring rules based on saved search filters or by defining new keywords and phrases. Get real-time email and Slack alerts whenever a match is found.
Review dark web mention with links, author, and source information, and resolve events easily.
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Illicit sources monitored by NordStellar
Deep and dark web forums
With seven years of experience monitoring the deep and dark web, NordStellar has access to one of the largest data pools for dark web monitoring. Track criminal discussions and detect emerging threats across thousands of forums.
Dark web marketplaces
NordStellar closely monitors major dark web marketplaces. Gain early visibility into your company’s compromised information and sensitive data being sold illegally.
Telegram channels
NordStellar actively monitors over 25,000 cybercrime Telegram channels used for fraud, phishing, and identity theft. Quickly detect threats and prevent potential incidents.
Ransomware blogs
Over 250 ransomware blogs are tracked to help assess threats of ransomware and data leaks. Identify risks of your organization being targeted by ransomware and prevent these devastating attacks.
Why invest in dark web monitoring
Gives full threat visibility
It keeps you updated and allows you to address threats promptly.
Warns about potential threats
Deep and dark web scanning lets you learn about potential threats before they materialize.
Protects company’s reputation
Monitoring the deep and dark web helps your company protect your brand image and customer trust.
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How NordStellar dark web monitoring benefits your company
Real-time monitoring
NordStellar continuously scans dark web marketplaces, forums, ransomware blogs, and Telegram channels for data exposure associated with your business.
Brand and keyword matching
The dark web monitor allows you to monitor for specific keywords around your brand or organization.
Proactive threat intelligence
NordStellar identifies potential threats early and helps you protect the company's assets before any damage to your business is done.
Reduced risk of data breaches
With personalized threat monitoring and real-time alerts, you can discover threats, such as leaked credentials, quickly respond to them, and minimize risk to your company.
Explore NordStellar’s security solutions
NordStellar replicates the information gathering stage of a cyberattack, allowing you to know what your attackers might know. This way, your cybersecurity team is able to detect critical threats and intervene at the earliest stages of an attack — before any real damage is done.
Data breach monitoring involves scanning the deep and dark web for leaked sensitive information linked to your business. To spot breached data, NordStellar checks infostealer malware logs, leaked databases, and collections of stolen credentials combinations. This solution provides real-time monitoring and the full context of past and present attacks.
Attack surface management (ASM) helps you monitor your business's external attack surface to prevent potential cyber risks. It lets you efficiently manage your company's internet-facing assets, such as IP addresses with open ports and outdated technologies, by identifying vulnerabilities and security gaps within them.
Cybersquatting detection helps you recognize and prevent threat actors from impersonating your brand. Using content and visual similarity algorithms enriched with AI, NordStellar can detect various domain manipulations and issue real-time alerts, providing a detailed view of each suspicious domain.
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FAQ
The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that requires special tools like Tor to access. It's often used for anonymous or illegal activities such as trading stolen data, distributing malware, offering hacking tools and services, and exchanging information.
The dark web isn’t indexed by traditional search engines and requires special browsers like Tor to access. It’s a place where cybercriminals anonymously share their practices and sell what they’ve stolen through various malicious tactics, such as phishing, social engineering, insider threats, network-based threats, and vulnerabilities in software.
Currently, the platform monitors thousands of sources, such as dark web forums, Telegram channels, and ransomware blogs. More sources are added regularly.
Automating dark web monitoring lets you know what cybercriminals know about your organization. By monitoring the dark web, you detect exposed credentials, compromised sensitive data, and emerging threats, allowing you to address these cybersecurity risks and prevent them from escalating.
If you receive a dark web alert, it means that NordStellar has discovered some information associated with you or your company on the dark web. Carefully review the alert, analyze it further to confirm legitimacy, assess risk, and proceed with appropriate security procedures.
For example, if NordStellar discovers leaked credentials, make sure to change passwords on compromised accounts and enable multi-factor authentication. If the notification reveals a data breach, deal with the immediate danger, investigate how the data breach occurred, and update your security policy.
Yes, dark web monitoring is crucial. It helps your company detect compromised data and monitor dark web discussions for potential threats, allowing you to respond before attackers act. Without dark web monitoring, exposed accounts or leaked data could be exploited by anyone on the dark web.