Infosecurity Europe: AI-Powered Cybercrime Tools Surge on Dark Web
Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser lifts the lid on the dark web market for AI cybercrime tools
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Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser lifts the lid on the dark web market for AI cybercrime tools
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Claims it can analyze millions of daily events with 98 percent accuracy RSAC 2026 Google's Gemini AI agents are crawling the dark web, sifting through upward of 10 million posts a day to find a handful of threats relevant to a particular organization.…
An information-stealing malware operation named Arkanix Stealer, promoted on multiple dark web forums towards the end of 2025, was likely developed as an AI-assisted experiment. [...]
European Startup Acquisition Aims to Unify Technical and Financial Cyber InsightsThe acquisition of Intangic enhances Searchlight Cyber's ability to quantify and price cyber risk by leveraging AI and dark web intelligence. The combined platform will offer actionable third-party risk data for CISOs, CFOs and insurance providers to better understand and manage cyber exposure.
Dark web activity can hide in plain sight within everyday network traffic. Corelight's NDR platform brings deep visibility, AI-driven detection, and behavioral analytics to uncover hidden threats across your network. [...]
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 9: Join us for a look around today's Dark Web, and find out how law enforcement, AI, nation-state activities, and more are reshaping the way cybercriminals conduct their dirty business online. Keith Jarvis, senior security researcher at Sophos' Counter Threat Unit joins Dark Reading's Alex Culafi for a conversation you don't want to miss.
Abnormal AI said gaining access to such accounts provides opportunities for sophisticated fraud schemes that impersonate officials
Attackers are leveraging the benefits of new technology and the availability of commodity tools, credentials, and other resources to develop sophisticated attacks more quickly than ever, putting defenders on their heels.
The incident should serve as a critical wake-up call. The stakes are simply too high to treat AI security as an afterthought — especially when the Dark Web stands ready to capitalize on every vulnerability.
Xanthorox AI, a self-contained system for offensive cyber operations, has emerged on darknet forums
Kela researchers detect a 200%+ increase in dark web chatter about malicious AI tools
Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year.…
More than 225,000 logs containing compromised OpenAI ChatGPT credentials were made available for sale on underground markets between January and October 2023, new findings from Group-IB show
ALSO: Samsung turns to Baidu for Galaxy AI in China; Terraform Labs files for bankruptcy; India's supercomputing ambitions Asia In Brief Indian infosec firm CloudSEK last week claimed it found records describing 750 million Indian mobile network subscribers on the dark web, with two crime gangs offering the trove of data for just $3,000.…
And there were an additional 3,000 comments posted to the Dark Web about the sale of stolen ChatGPT accounts.
Kaspersky said cybercriminals are exploring schemes to implement ChatGPT in malware development
An analysis of dark web forums revealed many threat actors are skeptical about using tools like ChatGPT to launch attacks
By code or by command, cybercriminals are circumventing ethical and safety restrictions to use generative AI chatbots in the way that they want.
The DarkBART and DarkBERT cybercriminal chatbots, based on Google Bard, represent a major leap ahead for adversarial AI, including Google Lens integration for images and instant access to the whole of the cyber-underground knowledge base.