Darknet markets continue to thrive as hubs for criminality, including for narcotics and firearm distribution, malware supply, ransomware recruitment and other cornerstone cybercrime-as-a-service activities. Studying how Hydra became such a success will be key to tracking and disrupting future darknet markets, says Ian Gray, senior intelligence director at Flashpoint. Gray also discusses the correlation between geopolitics and cybercrime: how the war in Ukraine is affecting tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as goals. Gray leads Americas research and analysis for Flashpoint, where he focuses on deep and dark web intelligence.”]
Source: https://www.govinfosecurity.com/hydra-darknet-market-threat-intelligence-lessons-learned-a-19368