From zdnet.com
There’s been a significant rise in the number of dark web listings for malware and other hacking tools which target the enterprise, and an increasing number of underground vendors are touting tools that are designed to target particular industries.
A study by cybersecurity company Bromium and criminologists at the University of Surrey involved researchers studying underground forums and interacting with cyber-criminal vendors. The study found that the dark web is fast becoming a significant source of bespoke malware.
In many cases, the dark web sellers demonstrated intimate knowledge of email systems, networks and even cybersecurity protocols in a way that suggests they themselves have spent a lot of time inside enterprise networks, raising questions about security for some companies.
“What surprised me is the extent you could obtain malware targeting enterprise, you could obtain operational data relating to enterprise,” Mike McGuire, senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey and author of the study, told ZDNet.