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Shining a Light on the Dark Web

By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, September 2023, Vol. 66 No. 9, Pages 13-14
10.1145/3607867
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In April, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced it had dismantled Genesis, one of the biggest illegal markets on the Internet, known for stealing and selling data from more than 1.5 million computers and over 80 million online accounts. This was the federal government's latest attempt at cracking down on the worst cyber offenders of the Dark Web, a subset of the Internet that anonymizes a user's connection and is often used for illicit activities.

The Dark Web originally was used by the U.S. Department of Defense as a way for officials to communicate anonymously, according to Steve Morgan, founder of Cybersecurity Ventures, which publishes Cybercrime Magazine.

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