Can you share some of the craziest dark web stories related to cybercrime?
Sure. There are stories of large - scale data breaches where hackers steal huge amounts of personal data from companies and then sell it on the dark web. For example, credit card information of thousands of customers has been sold. Another is the case of ransomware attacks being coordinated from the dark web. Hackers would encrypt a company's data and then demand a large sum of money in cryptocurrency to decrypt it.
One story is about phishing schemes that are hatched on the dark web. Cybercriminals would create sophisticated fake websites that look exactly like legitimate ones, like banks or e - commerce sites. They would then use these to trick people into giving out their login credentials. There are also stories of botnets being sold on the dark web. A botnet is a network of infected computers that can be used for various malicious purposes such as sending spam emails or launching DDoS attacks.
