Articles from Searchlight Cyber

Searchlight Cyber has partnered with TRM Labs, the leading provider of blockchain intelligence solutions, to integrate new cryptocurrency analysis capabilities into its dark web investigation platform. The blockchain data provided by TRM Labs allows investigators to identify wallets linked to illicit activity, helping to combat crime ranging from ransomware attacks, to drug trafficking, to financial misconduct.

Searchlight Cyber provided technical capabilities to support the law enforcement takedown of the dark web marketplace BidenCash, announced this week by the U.S. Department of Justice. The operation involved the seizure of 145 dark web and traditional internet domains, and cryptocurrency funds associated with the marketplace. The BidenCash marketplace domains are no longer operational and will redirect to a U.S. law enforcement-controlled server, preventing future criminal activity on these sites.

Searchlight Cyber has launched new AI capabilities within its dark web investigations platform, Cerberus. The new Cerberus AI Insights feature summarizes dark web posts and threads to help analysts to quickly triage information and focus on the dark web content that is most relevant to their investigation and operational scope.

Searchlight Cyber, the Continuous Threat Exposure Management company, has enhanced its dark web investigation platform Cerberus with a new Marketplace Search and Insights module. This new feature automatically collates data on dark web marketplaces with enhanced functionality for filtering based on investigation priorities. The module gives investigators greater oversight of the dark web landscape, enables the prioritization of the highest-risk threats, and ultimately helps to combat online crime. The module already contains data on 140 marketplaces and new markets will be added as they emerge.

Searchlight Cyber, the Continuous Threat Exposure Management company, has released its annual report on ransomware trends from the dark web, “Same Game, New Players: Ransomware in 2025”. This year’s report tracks disruption to the “key players” in the ransomware landscape, an uptick in new ransomware groups operating on the dark web, and an increase in listed ransomware victims.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has appointed Todd Crick as Chief Operating Officer (COO), where he will be responsible for operational processes and overseeing the company’s go-to-market strategy. Todd brings years of experience in senior operations and consulting roles across telecoms and cybersecurity, including as SVP of Operations at AlienVault and Advisor to the President at Cylance.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, today published the results of a study with the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center, which shows that the presence of any data relating to an organization on the dark web demonstrably increases its risk of a cyberattack. To coincide with the study, Searchlight has also launched a supporting Dark Web Risk Report, which is a free resource that organizations can use to view their dark web exposure and the corresponding risk, based on an analysis conducted by the Cyber Risk Intelligence Center.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has released its latest report, revealing key ransomware trends for the first half of 2024. Ransomware in H1 2024: Trends from the Dark Web showcases how the ransomware scene has shifted since the release of its annual ransomware report 2024 at the start of the year. The report offers key insights drawn from dark web intelligence to help organizations bolster their defenses against emerging threats.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, was honored last night at the prestigious SC Awards Europe 2024 in London. Searchlight received the Best Emerging Technology award for its Cerberus dark web investigation platform, which enables cybersecurity professionals and law enforcement to uncover criminal activity on the deep and dark web.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has appointed seasoned cybersecurity leader Tim Warner as VP of Global Enterprise Sales. Tim joins Searchlight’s executive team and is responsible for leading Searchlight’s enterprise sales function, providing security teams around the world with dark web intelligence solutions that enable them to spot cyberattacks as they emerge from the dark web.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, will launch the highly anticipated 2024 edition of The Practitioner’s Guide To The Dark Web at RSA Conference in San Francisco. The latest edition is packed with brand new intelligence from the fast-moving dark web ecosystem and equips security professionals and law enforcement investigators with the latest essential insights to help them to effectively combat dark web threats.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has launched The Dark Web Hub – a first-of-its-kind online resource, providing crucial context and continuously updated information on dark web marketplaces, ransomware actors, hacking forums and other threats emanating from the dark web.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has integrated the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Framework into its dark web monitoring solution, DarkIQ. Aligning actionable dark web intelligence with a universally understood cybersecurity framework empowers all cybersecurity teams, irrespective of size, to contextualize ongoing threats and respond with recommended mitigations – further enhancing the value of dark web monitoring for identifying cyberattacks.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has released its latest report on the ransomware landscape of the dark web. More Groups, More Problems: Ransomware in 2023 covers the most prolific ransomware groups on the dark web last year, changing ransomware tactics based on dark web activity, and the operations security teams should watch out for in 2024. The threat intelligence comes from Searchlight Cyber’s Ransomware Search and Insights module, which collates data from the dark web leak sites of more than 50 ransomware groups.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has added AI-powered language translation into its dark web investigation and monitoring products DarkIQ and Cerberus. This enhancement gives cybersecurity professionals instant access to precisely translated results in English, allowing them to search, monitor, and understand threats in the most frequently used languages on the dark web – representing over 94 percent of non-English content. The full list of languages covered includes Russian, German, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Turkish, Italian, Dutch, and standard Chinese.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has launched a new Exposure Data view in DarkIQ, collating 450+ billion dark web data points from data breaches and malware infection to help organizations spot threats related to their business long before they trigger detection systems or firewalls.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has released enhancements to its unique Dark Web Traffic Monitoring capabilities, a key feature of its dark web monitoring solution, DarkIQ. These enhancements arm cybersecurity professionals with deeper insight into dark web traffic to and from their network, alerting their organization to potentially malicious activity and the possibility of an attack in preparation or in progress.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has released its new report, Dark Web Threats Against the Banking Sector, which outlines the tactics of cybercriminal reconnaissance against banking institutions. The report highlights the most prominent threats visible on the dark web - including Initial Access Broker posts on dark web forums, insider threats, and supply chain attacks - and explains how banks can use this intelligence to improve their cyber defense.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, today released its new report, Dark Web Threats Against the Energy Industry, which examines cybercriminals’ reconnaissance against energy companies on the dark web. The report analyzes threat actor activity against the energy sector over a 12 month period and provides guidance on how this dark web intelligence can be factored into threat models to help organizations improve their security posture.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, has launched Stealth Browser, a secure and user-friendly virtual machine for cyber professionals to access the dark web and conduct investigations anonymously, without risk to themselves or their organization. Stealth Browser is an enhancement to Searchlight’s Cerberus investigation platform, which is used by law enforcement agencies, enterprises and MSSPs to uncover criminal activity on the dark web, and has been used in some of the biggest criminal cases involving dark web activity.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, today released its report Proactive Defense: How Enterprises Are Using Dark Web Intelligence, which examines how CISOs are gathering data from the dark web to improve their security posture. The report, which analyzes the findings of a survey of over a thousand CISOs from large enterprises in the US and UK, found that nearly all CISOs (93 percent) are concerned about dark web threats and almost three quarters (72 percent) of CISOs believe that intelligence on cybercriminals is “critical” to defend their organization.

Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, today released its report A Guiding Light in the Dark: How MSSPs Are Using Dark Web Threat Intelligence, showing a surge in customer demand for dark web intelligence and a gap between demand and delivery. The report, which analyzes the findings of a survey of more than 500 Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) in the US and UK, found that over half (56 percent) say they are undertaking dark web monitoring, and over two-thirds (67 percent) reporting that their clients have requested threat intelligence from the dark web.