DarkCyber for April 6, 2021, Now Available

April 6, 2021

DarkCyber is a twice-a-month video news program about the Dark Web, cyber crime, and lesser known Internet services. You can view the program at this link.

This program covers five stories:

  1. Banjo, founded by a controversial figure, has been given an overhaul. There’s new management and a new name. The challenge? Turn the off tune Banjo into a sweet revenue song.
  2. The Dark Web is not a hot bed of innovation. In fact, it’s stagnant, and law enforcement has figured out its technology and is pursuing persons of interest. A “new” Dark Web-like datasphere is now emerging. Robust encrypted messaging apps allow bad actors to make deals, pay for goods and services, and locate fellow travelers more easily and quickly than ever before.
  3. User tracking is a generator of high value information. Some believe that user tracking is benign or nothing about which to worry. That’s not exactly the situation when third-party and primary data are gathered, cross-correlated, and analyzed. Finding an insider who can be compromised has never been easier.
  4. New cyber crime reports are flowing in the aftermath of the Solarwinds’ and Microsoft Exchange Server fiascos. What’s interesting that two of these reports reveal information which provides useful insight into what the bad actors did to compromise thousands of systems.
  5. The final story reports about the world’s first drone which makes it possible for law enforcement and intelligence operatives to conduct a video conference with a bad actor near the drone. The innovative device can also smash through tempered glass to gather information about persons of interest.

DarkCyber is produced by Stephen E Arnold. The program is a production of Beyond Search and Arnold Information Technology. Mr. Arnold is the author of CyberOSINT and The Dark Web Notebook. He will be lecturing at the 2021 National Cyber Crime Conference.

Kenny Toth, April 6, 2021

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