USE CASE: DARK WEB MONITORING

Continuous Dark Web Monitoring

The dark web is only one layer of the criminal underground, and by the time your data appears there, it’s often too late. SpyCloud provides dark web monitoring that goes deeper and gives you a critical time advantage – detecting exposed credentials and identity artifacts in private channels before they’re packaged, sold, or weaponized.

Get earlier, actionable visibility into compromised identities to prevent fraud, account takeover, and ransomware.

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Advanced dark web monitoring for consumers and enterprises

The dark web enables threat actors to trade stolen credentials, PII, and access data, but most of this activity happens 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, identifying data only after the data has been exposed for months or years.

SpyCloud redefines dark web monitoring by infiltrating criminal networks to recapture breached, malware-exfiltrated, and successfully phished data directly from the source – often before it’s sold or leaked publicly. Our researchers and proprietary technology collect and structure this data for immediate use, enabling automated detection and remediation of exposed identities, credentials, and other high-risk assets. This early access gives organizations the power to act faster and reduce risk before threats turn into incidents.

How SpyCloud's monitoring goes beyond the dark web

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, continuous detection

Get real-time push alerts when consumer or employee data is compromised – not months after it’s for sale on the dark web

Actionable, high-fidelity data
Eliminate false positives with concrete evidence of compromise – including the source and the exact impacted credentials, cookies, and PII
Holistic identity matching
Correlate reused credentials, cookies, and other identity artifacts to see and act on the full picture of exposure

The data seems to be a step ahead of other competitors. We’ve done POCs on multiple deep web monitoring solutions and this one had the most actionable data.

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Dark web monitoring for consumers and enterprises

SpyCloud is the trusted partner for security leaders, practitioners, and service providers across every industry when it comes to dark web monitoring solutions for consumer and enterprise protection.

CONSUMER PROTECTION

Enhance customer experience & drive business revenue
Whether you’re embedding dark web monitoring into a consumer product or charged with proactively stopping account takeover in your app, SpyCloud helps you protect your users, grow loyalty, and increase revenue with minimal engineering effort.

Spend less time on better outcomes

Decrease your engineering footprint and let SpyCloud offload the majority of your data processing and matching logic. Win hours back by only focusing on new data and by automating key parts of your customer journeys and product experiences.

Streamline the user experience

Check for exposed credentials or payment info seamlessly. Clear credit card data or require enhanced 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.

ENTERPRISE PROTECTION

Mitigate employee & supply chain exposure
Focus on what makes your business tick, not dark web data collection, investigation, and manual remediation. With SpyCloud dark web monitoring, you’re alerted to compromised authentication data so you can remediate quickly and move on.

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 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.

Next steps

Discover how SpyCloud uncovers identity data long before it reaches public marketplaces – giving you a critical time advantage to prevent threats before they escalate.

SpyCloud dark web monitoring FAQs

SpyCloud analyzes and ingests data from third-party breaches, malware-infected devices, successful phishes 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.

With SpyCloud’s APIs, developers can build features that alert users to exposures and guide them through remediation.
SpyCloud delivers unmatched timeliness, specificity, and context by sourcing directly from the criminal underground — not just passive scraping.

SpyCloud’s high-fidelity alerts include contextual detail to inform messaging that is clear, actionable, and non-alarming. You can also view our guide with best practices for how to notify customers of a breach here.

The dark web includes hidden marketplaces and forums — but most criminal data exchange happens outside of these spaces. SpyCloud accesses data before it hits the market.