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Going into the Darknet: How Cynet Lighthouse
Services Keep Cybersecurity Teams One Step
Ahead of Hackers
By monitoring the darknet, as well as underground forums, Cynet is able to identify and
prepare for the latest cybersecurity threats before they reach deafening levels.
By Eyal Gruner, Co-Founder and CEO of Cynet
Data breaches are far from new, but the scale of attacks and sophistication of the attackers has reached
all new levels in recent years. Since the pandemic, with the rise in remote work environments and work
from home setups, compromised credentials became the most common initial access vector for data
breaches in 2022 according to IBM – leading to rampant cybersecurity attacks. Because of the anonymity
it offers, the darknet is fertile ground for bad actors looking to buy, sell, and trade large datasets of
credential that can be used to access compromised accounts and systems left unchecked.
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