Using AI To Identify Cybercrime Masterminds
Sophos, June 30,2025
Analyzing dark web forums to identify key experts on e-crime
Online criminal forums, both on the public internet and on the 'dark web' of Tor .onion sites, are a rich resource for threat intelligence researchers. The Sophos Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have a team of darkweb researchers collecting intelligence and interacting with darkweb forums, but combing through these posts is a time-consuming and resource-intensive task, and it's always possible that things are missed.