Attackers on the dark web have become more active by the end of 2022

By the end of 2022, illegal trade on the darknet began to recover after a sharp drop. During the second half of last year, the number of transactions with guarantors on the shadow Internet doubled – from 19,500 in June to 40,000 in December, according to a study by Kaspersky Lab (the document is at the disposal of Vedomosti). Guarantors are intermediaries whose services are used by cybercriminals to reduce risks when concluding transactions on the shadow Internet.

Kaspersky Lab analysts studied ads on 226 international forums and darknet platforms, as well as in 489 public Telegram channels used by cybercriminals. It turned out that the total number of messages on the dark web that somehow mention the use of the guarantor over the past three years (2020-2022) amounted to more than 1 million, of which almost 313,000 were published in 2022.