Security News > 2020 > May > Pandemic-related Supply Chain and Money Laundering Woes in the Dark Web
Researchers have trawled the dark web to see how the underground is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Researchers from Trustwave have found that the underground mirrors the overground - some people seek to make money from the crisis, others ignore it, and still others offer genuine help, information and advice to forum members.
Even the ethics of making money off the crisis is questioned: "How do you feel about people who earn panic around the coronavirus?" The first response was, "To speculators and scammers, negatively." But then, highlighting the nuanced attitude towards ethics that seems common in the underground, this person added that it wasn't always wrong in all circumstances.
Money laundering through illiquid goods has suffered through the worldwide reduction in the circulation of goods.
The picture of the dark web underground painted by Trustwave's research shows an almost exact mirror of 'legitimate' society.
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