Dark web exposure increases risk of attack

The presence of any data relating to an organization on the dark web demonstrably increases its risk of a cyberattack. This probably won't come as too much of a surprise but it's confirmed by new research from Searchlight Cyber, the dark web intelligence company, and the Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center. The report analyzed Searchlight's dark web dataset against a sample of 9,410 organizations with an overall breach rate of 3.7 percent from 2020 to 2023. Having compromised user accounts related to an organization on the dark web increases the likelihood of a cyber incident by 2.56 times. The… [Continue Reading]