Dark web monitoring by SpyCloud
In the age of digital connectivity, the dark web poses a significant threat to both consumers and enterprises. Criminals use this hidden part of the internet to buy, sell, and trade stolen data, making it crucial for organizations to monitor for compromise.
SpyCloud offers unparalleled dark web monitoring solutions, leveraging advanced technology to provide early detection and proactive remediation of compromised data.
Advanced dark web monitoring for consumers and enterprises
The dark web enables criminals to trade contraband, including stolen credentials, away from the eyes of conventional search engines like Google or Bing. However, not all illicit activities occur on the dark web; much of it happens through private exchanges, encrypted chats, and closed groups. Traditional dark web monitoring tools often fall short, detecting data breaches only after the data has been exposed for months or years.
SpyCloud’s Cybercrime Analytics revolutionizes dark web monitoring by infiltrating criminal communities to access data, often before it appears on the dark web. Our security researchers and proprietary technology surfaces this “recaptured data,” transforming it into actionable insights. This early detection and remediation capability gives organizations a head start in mitigating risks.
Key features of SpyCloud's dark web monitoring
SpyCloud illuminates the darkest corners of the criminal underground to deliver the earliest possible notification of exposed consumer and employee data, and offers easy integration into applications – as well as common security tools – for proactive response.
Early detection
Stop threats by accessing stolen dark web data months – and often years – before other providers even know it’s exposed.
Actionable data
Benefit from true evidence of compromise, not false positives – so you deliver only the information that needs remediation urgently.
Beyond alerts
Notify users of their dark web exposures and help them take action or deploy automated remediation, depending on your use case.
Workflow integration
Integrate SpyCloud seamlessly with your existing security tools, such as SIEM and SOAR systems, to support enterprise infrastructures like Active Directory and Okta.
Continuous monitoring
Leverage continuous identity monitoring to learn of compromises as they happen to address new threats and reduce the risk of targeted attacks.
Protect consumers from dark web identity exposures
Whether you’re adding value to an existing product to drive revenue and customer loyalty or charged with proactively stopping account takeover in your application, SpyCloud is your expert partner to protect your customers’ accounts, your bottom line, and the integrity of your brand.
Enjoy flexibility at every turn
Choose from multiple implementation options and require action on exposures according to your users' tolerance for friction. When using SpyCloud's recaptured data for consumer alerts, choose what data points to share for education and action.
Streamline the user experience
Check for exposed credentials or payment info seamlessly. Clear credit card data or require step-up authentication when exposures are detected, and accelerate revenue by moving low-risk users through your site without friction.
Mitigate the riskiest users
Block more fraud with SpyCloud's malware data. Flag consumers using infected devices whose plaintext credentials, authentication cookies, auto-fill data, and payment methods make them a priority target for cybercriminals.
Drive revenue from premium services
Optimize your consumer dark web monitoring product offering with premium alerts containing more detailed information and steps to take when identity data has been discovered online.
Remediate dark web exposures to protect your enterprise
Focus on what makes your business tick, not dark web data collection, investigation and manual remediation. With SpyCloud, you’re alerted to compromised authentication data and it’s rectified without lifting a finger.
Resolve exposures instantly
Optimize account takeover prevention with automatic matching of employee and contractor credentials to data in the criminal underground. Resecure vulnerable accounts through Active Directory and SOAR integrations.
Reduce manual work
Spend time on greater-value activities and leave the heavy lifting to SpyCloud. We handle dark web data collection, curation, and analysis, enable password resets, and prove value with executive reporting.
Reduce the risk of targeted attacks
Negate entry points for ransomware by responding to stolen access for corporate credentials and authentication cookies for SSO, cloud applications and shadow IT.
Extend protection to vendors & VIPs
Protect vendors logging into corporate systems as well as the personal accounts of senior executives, board members, and employees with privileged access.
How It Works
SpyCloud’s Cybercrime Analytics Engine analyzes and ingests data from third-party breaches, malware-infected devices, and other underground sources well before they make their way to the “dark web.” By that point, it’s too late; months or years after the data is actually stolen and monetized by cybercriminals, it’s repackaged and sold to a broader audience on the dark web. This is when most dark web monitoring data providers pick up the data through automated scanning.
That’s not how SpyCloud operates.
Our security researchers gain access to the same data the fraudsters are using to target your business and your customers. Through our proprietary technology and tradecraft, we surface this “recaptured data” – including credentials, PII, credit card numbers, bank account info and more – before it is used to cause harm.
The earlier that breaches and malware-exfiltrated data are discovered, the faster you can mitigate the risk and prevent collateral damage to your employees and consumers – but it all depends on the quality and quantity of data you have at your fingertips
FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS
Consume SpyCloud’s data in your product or service to deliver alerts when users’ email and/or password become exposed, revealing details of the breach or malware infection and steps to remediate.
FOR
ENTERPRISES
Proactively monitor data from users on your domain and automatically remediate breached and malware-compromised passwords in Active Directory – including where Okta is the identity broker.
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Data partnerships
Access comprehensive breach and malware data to add value to security and fraud detection products and services
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Enterprise Protection
Reduce your risk of ransomware and other critical attacks – acting on known points of compromise
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Consumer Risk Protection
Take a proactive approach to combating account takeover and stop high-risk attacks tied to malware
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Investigations
Efficiently piece together criminals’ digital breadcrumbs to reveal the identities of specific adversaries engaging in cybercrime
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About Cybercrime Analytics
Learn about the new way to disrupt cybercrime with automated analytics that drive action.
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Test our data
We’re confident you’ll get more matches with SpyCloud – let’s do a match rate test.
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Check your exposure
Uncover threats to your organization like malware-infected employees, stolen session cookies, and recency of breach exposures.
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Get started on dark web monitoring with SpyCloud
Proactive dark web monitoring is essential in today’s evolving threat landscape. SpyCloud’s advanced solutions provide early detection and automated remediation, helping businesses and consumers stay ahead of cybercriminals.
SpyCloud goes beyond traditional dark web monitoring.
SpyCloud dark web monitoring FAQs
Our data is easily consumed by product teams through a high-volume API. We supply documentation and best practices so you can begin using it right away.
The speed of our collection efforts, accuracy and actionability of our data, and ease of use set us apart. SpyCloud boasts the largest database and the highest match rate of accounts being sold on underground markets, with data recaptured 9+ months ahead of other providers. And in a recent study of users after trialing a dark web and identity monitoring service built using SpyCloud’s data, 100% of users said they’d be willing to subscribe, 66% said they’d would leverage the service at least every 3 months, and 100% said they would recommend the service to friends or relatives. Just one example of the value we can deliver together.
We have built best practice email and app communications based on what prompts customers to reset passwords, without creating unnecessary fear. Check out our guide here. You can expect this type of guidance when you choose SpyCloud as your dark web data partner.
It may scare users – whether employees or consumers – to know that their device has been infected with malware and their identity data and credentials have been siphoned and shared on the dark web. Doing so is an urgent priority for enterprises, since these exposures open doors for ransowmare and other targeted attacks. For service providers, informing consumers requires a delicate hand. We provide best practices and communication templates for these scenarios. Check out one of our guides here for more information.
The “dark web” refers to the section of the internet that requires additional privacy support from visitors that can be provided by services like Tor and I2P. Entities (including websites) within the “dark web” are known as hidden services, and due to the access requirements for these services, they are not indexed by commonly used search engines like Google. Naturally, some criminals take advantage of this extra security and privacy to buy, sell, and trade all manner of contraband, including stolen credentials.
Complete cyber protection requires more than traditional dark web monitoring.
See dark web trends
Get insights from our 2024 Identity Exposure report, where we break down the data we recaptured last year.
Learn how we recapture darknet data
Discover the difference our Cybercrime Analytics Engine makes in preventing cyberattacks.
Check your dark web exposure
See the data we’ve analyzed for your domain and your customers.
