Stolen data from company networks, such as customer personal information, healthcare records and so on, are some of the types of data commonly sold on the Dark Web for a profit.ĭespite knowing that this “underworld” exists, it is difficult to investigate and penetrate the Dark Web. As you can imagine, this is the “underworld of the Internet”. The visits to these websites are encrypted and the use of a VPN hides your identity, providing the much sought-after anonymity.
Websites in this layer can only be accessed via a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Examples of this type of sites are a company’s intranet, subscription-based publication, and academic or government databases. The second layer, “Deep Web” refers to the websites that contain proprietary data that is accessible to a selected group of people. The top layer, “Surface Web”, refers to websites that are accessible via a search engine such as this Chubb website that you are at now.
Paul Jackson likened the Internet to an iceberg with three layers of visibility. In a webinar held in partnership with our cyber security partner, Paul Jackson, Kroll’s Asia Pacific Leader on Cyber Risk, shared that the Dark Web is, in fact, a broad term for a collection of sites which may look very much like the sites on the visible web that we are familiar with. 1 risk to business, brands, operations and financials (source: SonicWall 2018 Cyber Threat Report), one may wonder what is the attacker doing with the data that he now possesses.
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