Dark Web Monitoring & Search
By the time stolen credentials or company data show up for sale on a dark web marketplace, the breach that produced them has usually already happened somewhere — yours, a vendor's, or a service your employees reused a password on. The value of dark web search isn't preventing that initial exposure; it's finding out about it fast enough to act before it's used against you, and understanding whether you're being actively targeted, not just incidentally swept up in a mass breach dump.
What's actually out there
Dark web marketplaces and forums trade in a wide range of things that matter to you specifically: credential dumps that include your employees' email addresses and passwords, sometimes still valid; access for sale to specific companies, sold by initial-access brokers who found a foothold and are looking for a buyer; discussions naming your organization as a target, which is a different and more serious signal than generic chatter; and sensitive data that may have come from a breach you don't even know happened yet, whether it's yours or a vendor's that affects you.
How I search
I monitor and search across the marketplaces, forums, and paste sites where this activity actually happens, tied specifically to your domains, your key executives, and your organization's name — not a generic keyword sweep that produces mostly irrelevant noise. When something real turns up, I verify it's genuine before raising an alarm, because false positives in this space are common and crying wolf erodes trust fast. Then I tell you specifically what it means: which accounts need credential resets right now, whether this points to a breach you haven't detected yet, or whether it indicates active targeting that should change your defensive posture immediately rather than wait for the next quarterly review.
This is most useful as ongoing monitoring rather than a one-time search, because new exposures show up continuously and the value is in catching them close to when they happen, not months later.
Who this is for
Organizations that want to know if their credentials or data are already circulating, executives and public figures who are realistic targets for credential-based attacks, and companies that have had a vendor breach and need to know if it's spilling into dark web marketplaces.
If you want to know what's actually out there about you right now, get in touch.