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Is the dark web dangerous to use ?

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lucieferhola
Is the dark web dangerous to use ?

This question always pops up when the work is done privately through dark webs . Therefore , it is dangerous to use and a dangerous place as well . With not so encrypted and firewalls the evasion of others users or hackers are easily persuaded . That becomes the pattern  facing the common threats through browsing .

There are types of threats that are faced .

  1. Malicious or malware :

It is a software that is malware i.e it is already designed to disrupt , damage or unauthorized gain into other computer system . The malware is covered all over the dark web . Through this they are worked as the cyber attacks where they threats the actors . It is a dark web link that hardly or the hardest to trace out the users or the one who is attacking the cyber system . There is no shield of gardening the users in the dark web hence , they are low -key in social connections which ultimately brings the cyber crime or hackers hindrances . Consequently  the users are well exposed in this situation through some sort of malware , that are :-

  1. Keyloggers
  2. Botnet malware
  3. Ransomware
  4. Phishing malware

These malwares can be caught by the endpoint security programs  .

  1. Government monitoring :

The Tor browser is all over taken up by the government for the security and surfing measures . It's highly targeted as the whole thing is search over the dark web .

In the past , the holding up or catching out of the incident of the silk road took place by tracing over the dark web that led to trace bits the drug dealer ships. The government has the access to discover the custom softwares infiltrate and the analytical activity by the police department . The infiltration is basically shaking all the secretive information about a particular organisation . An act of infiltration is a serious cyberattack which can lead any country secret in danger .

 

  1. Scams :-

The scammers are all over the dark web which only wants money from genuine users through threat or hijacking the details of particular users . From the reports it been articulated that the dark web links leads to the sex trafficking and weapons dealerships .

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