{"id":80608,"date":"2023-06-22T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=80608"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:00:41","slug":"experts-report-cybercriminals-shifting-from-the-dark-web-to-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/experts-report-cybercriminals-shifting-from-the-dark-web-to-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts report cybercriminals shifting from the dark web to Telegram."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware operators, malware developers and other criminals are shifting their activity from the dark web to Telegram channels. This is reported by <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/the-great-exodus-to-telegram-a-tour-of-the-new-cybercrime-underground\/\\\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>, citing a report from Flare&#8217;s <span data-descr=\\\"Digital Risk Protection Service\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">DRPS<\/span>-platform.<\/p>\n<p>Experts note that cybercriminals are increasingly shunning Tor sites due to their slowness and heightened attention from law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, traditional darknet marketplaces operate as a clearinghouse, holding transactions for 14 days to prevent fraud. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cMarketplace owners can store millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies [which carries the risk of] an exit scam,\u201d Flare noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Telegram, by contrast, offers a number of advantages for cybercriminals, including speed, ease of finding information, and a large user base. <\/p>\n<p>The messenger provides the necessary level of anonymity, as it does not track IP addresses and enables private chats.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, Telegram channels linked to criminals specialise in a single type of activity, unlike darknet marketplaces. Some of them operate on a premium basis, selling monthly access to the information posted there for $200-400 in Monero.<\/p>\n<p>The messenger also enables hackers to band together to organise joint attacks on a company or critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In the second quarter of 2022, Positive Technologies specialists recorded a <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/massive-ip-address-blocking-in-turkmenistan-telegram-hacker-activity-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">twofold growth of the market for illicit cyber services<\/a> on Telegram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware operators, malware developers and other criminals are shifting their activity from the dark web to Telegram channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,477,723],"class_list":["post-80608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-darknet","tag-telegram"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80610,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80608\/revisions\/80610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}