OPSEC on the Darkweb: The good, the bad and the ugly

THOTCON 0x7

Presented by: Nick Espinoza, Zach Flom
Date: Thursday May 05, 2016
Time: 13:00 - 13:50
Location: Main Room
Track: Track 1

Recorded Future analysts have analyzed how the dark web (TOR) is being used for the good, the bad, and the ugly. We focus on a few use cases: Threat actors and their poor OPSEC across open/deep/dark web Specific market places and poor obfuscation and configuration of services Uniquely identifying data points for hidden services How and where hidden sites/services are commonly flagged on the open Web *A discussion of what might be a good use of TOR (social dissent), bad (child exploitation), and ugly (focus on data around terror support networks) We leverage open source collections and analysis tools, custom network scanning tools, and private sources in our research.

Nick Espinoza

NJE and Zach Flom are Threat Intelligence Analysts at Recorded Future. Flom and Espinoza have supported the DoD and IC as analysts.

Zach Flom

NJE and Zach Flom are Threat Intelligence Analysts at Recorded Future. Flom and Espinoza have supported the DoD and IC as analysts.


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