Security News > 2021 > July > How the Dark Web enables access to corporate networks

The number of ads selling access to corporate networks has continued to increase from 2019 to 2020 and into 2021, says Positive Technologies.

A report released Wednesday by security provider Positive Technologies looks at the selling of network access on the Dark Web and examines how this threat continues to grow.

For its report, Positive Technologies analyzed 10 popular Russian and English forums on the Dark Web that provide access to corporate networks along with ads seeking hackers for hire or hacking partners.

Throughout the past few years, these forums have seen a steady increase in ads with each quarter, most of them selling access to corporate networks that had already been breached.

Around $600,000 worth of corporate network access is sold on the Dark Web each quarter.

Most of the companies with network access for sale on the Dark Web were in the services, manufacturing and research and education sectors.

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