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Once you know that your Social Security number is available on a public forum like the dark web, it may only be a matter of time before someone tries to use that information against you.
In 2015, Jay Jacobs, an analyst working on data breach reporting for Verizon, estimated that as many as 60% to 80% of all Social Security numbers in the U.S. had been compromised.
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets. [1] [2] [3]
The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines. The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. [11] Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. [12]
According to a post from a cybersecurity expert on X, formerly Twitter, USDoD claims to be selling the 2.9 billion records for citizens of the U.S., U.K. and Canada on the dark web for $3.5 million.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The first conflation of the terms "deep web" and "dark web" happened during 2009 when deep web search terminology was discussed together with illegal activities occurring on the Freenet and darknet. [9] Those criminal activities include the commerce of personal passwords, false identity documents, drugs, firearms, and child pornography. [10]