Dark Web Monitoring & Threat Intelligence
See the leak before it becomes a breach.
Continuous monitoring of dark web sources and underground forums to detect exposed credentials, leaked data, and emerging threats.
Proactive threat hunting identifies indicators of compromise before they escalate into security incidents. Every alert is analyst-reviewed before it reaches you. No noisy feeds, no raw dumps.
- Credential & data-exposure alerts
- Brand impersonation & leak detection
- Monthly executive summary
- Incident-ready handoff packages
- Threat-actor profile dossiers
- Visibility into credential leaks before attackers weaponize them
- Measurable reduction in time from leak to response
- Executive-ready monthly intelligence posture
- Incident-handoff packages instead of raw noise
How the engagement runs. Phase by phase.
Selector onboarding
Domains, brand terms, exec names, customer PII patterns, proprietary identifiers.
Baseline sweep
Retroactive search across historical corpus (2010-present) for prior exposures.
Continuous collection
24/7 crawlers + analyst review of matched hits.
Alert + handoff
Severity-scored alert with context, evidence, and recommended IR steps.
Monthly intelligence brief
Trend summary, actor activity, industry-specific threats.
What we actually use. No secrets.
Every tool earns its place. We publish our stack so your team can audit, review, and integrate with what we bring.
- CUCustom Tor crawlersRotating-identity scrape of .onion forums, markets, paste sites
- I2 I2P gatewayCoverage of I2P-hosted leak sites missed by Tor-only vendors
- TETelegram / Discord collectorsMonitored extortion channels and leak-group broadcasts
- HA Have I Been Pwned integrationHistorical breach correlation for exposed identities
- FL Flashpoint / Recorded Future feedsCommercial intel overlay for threat-actor attribution
- MI MISP + STIX/TAXIIIndustry-standard IOC normalization and sharing
- SPSplunk / Elastic SIEM connectorPush-alerts into your existing SOC workflow
- ANAnalyst workbench (internal)Pattern-of-life scoring, actor profiling, evidence capture
How we do the work. Not just what.
Selector-based monitoring
Domains, executive names, customer PII patterns, source-code fingerprints, brand variants, all tracked with fuzzy matching.
Combolist correlation
When credentials appear, we match against your domain + known-old-password policy to distinguish fresh leaks from historical re-circulation.
Extortion-site watch
Ransomware leak sites scraped every 15 minutes; automatic alert if your name or a customer's appears.
Source-code leak detection
GitHub, GitLab, GitHub Gists, and pastebins monitored for proprietary code, API keys, and AWS access patterns.
Analyst triage (critical)
Every alert is read by a human before it reaches you. Auto-feeds are noisy and create alert fatigue: we refuse to ship raw feeds.
Actor attribution
Cross-reference handles across forums, cryptocurrency wallets, and past incidents. Build a dossier, don't just raise an alert.
Real problems. Real fixes.
Anonymized incidents from actual engagements: what broke, why it mattered, and how we fixed it.
Alert volume from a commercial feed overwhelmed client's SOC: 400 daily alerts, 3% actionable.
Real incidents were missed because the team had stopped reading the feed.
Replaced raw feed with analyst-triaged queue. Alert volume dropped to ~12/week with > 90% actionable. Analyst time moved from filtering to response.
Credential dump claimed to include client data, couldn't verify without exposing remaining records.
Executive team needed an honest answer within 24 hours for customer comms.
Controlled-purchase protocol: acquired the sample via escrow broker under research authorization, validated with hashed-only matching, and delivered a defensible scope statement to legal counsel.
Threat actor began operating on a private Telegram channel we didn't have access to.
New leaks were shared privately 2–3 days before public posting. We were behind.
Established a legally-reviewed monitoring persona (with counsel approval), gained invite through industry reputation. Reduced lead time on new leaks from days to hours.
Intelligence pipeline
From raw crawl to analyst-validated alert.
Targets, not promises.
Do you access illegal content?
What if the leak turns out to be old data?
Can this integrate with our SIEM?
What's the escalation for a critical hit?
Scope a dark web monitoring engagement.
30-minute scoping call. You'll talk to an operator, not a BDR.