Dark web and deep web threat intelligence
Know when your organisation is being traded, targeted or impersonated.
Credentials leak. Domains get spoofed. Your name comes up in forums and Telegram groups long before anything actually happens to you. We watch those places, validate which findings are real, and act on them — taking down the spoofed domains and running the incident through to containment. What reaches you is a closed incident, not an alert.
Monitored as a continuous service, or as a one-off assessment. No limit on the number of domains, public-facing IP addresses or VIP accounts covered.
Why you cannot see it
The preparation for an attack happens where you can't see it.
Your existing controls may monitor your estate, but when a credential changes hands in a Telegram group, a lookalike domain is registered against your brand, or your company name comes up in a forum thread, they won't see it until the attempt begins.
By the time an attack reaches your perimeter, the planning is already done. The window to do something about it opened weeks earlier, during the time you weren't looking for it.
What we usually find
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Corporate credentials reused on personal sites
Staff signing up to third-party services with their work email and password. When that service is breached, the credential works against your systems too.
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Malware on personal machines leaking company data
An infostealer on a home laptop harvests everything in the browser. The password reset does not help, because the device is still infected.
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Default and simple administrator credentials
Privileged accounts protected by something guessable, surfaced in breach data alongside the system they belong to.
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Critical systems without multi-factor authentication
Breach metadata often reveals which systems accepted a password alone. That tells us where MFA was never rolled out, or was rolled back.
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Insiders leaking intellectual property
Material offered for sale or shared with competitors, traced back through the listing rather than through anything visible on the network.
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Typosquatting and spoofed sites
Look-alike domains registered against your brand, weaponised with mail servers or phishing pages aimed at your staff and your customers.
These are findings from real customer environments, not hypotheticals. Most were discovered before the organisation had any indication from its own tooling.
What we do
Detection is the easy part.
Every dark web product on the market will tell you something has been found. The question is what happens next — who decides whether it matters, and who does something about it.
Leaked credentials
Usernames and passwords tied to your domains surfacing in breach data, combolists and criminal marketplaces.
We actOur analysts triage each one to establish whether it is live, whether it has already been used, and what it exposes. Confirmed compromise moves straight into incident response.
Spoofed and typosquatted domains
Look-alike domains registered against your brand, and pages published in breach of your copyright and trademarks.
We actWe run a proactive takedown before the campaign launches, and report abuse to the mail and hosting providers so the attacker has to rebuild their infrastructure.
Infected endpoints
Metadata attached to breached data reveals how it was collected — which endpoints are running infostealers, and which systems accepted a password without a second factor.
We actWe identify the affected machines and users, quantify what has been taken, and tell you which gap let it happen rather than simply flagging the credential.
Tor traffic in both directions
Connections from your infrastructure out to the Tor network, and inbound connections from it to your public-facing services.
We actOutbound traffic is treated as a probable indicator of compromise and investigated as one. Inbound is assessed as reconnaissance and fed into what we watch for next.
Where remediation sits inside your estate — resetting a credential, rebuilding an infected machine — we tell you precisely what needs doing and why, and stay with it until it is closed.
How we work
From first look to standing watch.
Available as a one-off assessment or as a continuous service. The first stage is the same either way — the difference is whether we stop there.
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Establish what is already out there.
- Your domains, public-facing addresses and VIP accounts brought into scope
- Point-in-time assessment across every intelligence source we hold
- Findings quantified by impact rather than listed by volume
- A written report and a board-ready summary
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Watch the places your controls cannot reach.
- Paid intelligence feeds consolidated with our own collection
- Dark web forums and Telegram groups we hold access to
- Closed and government threat intelligence communities
- Open source intelligence on your internet-facing estate
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Decide what is real before it reaches you.
- Named analysts review every indicator, not a scoring engine
- Investigation branches across sources to confirm or dismiss
- True positives separated from noise, with the reasoning recorded
- Impact and priority established against your environment
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Contain it, then tell you what happened.
- Proactive takedown of spoofed domains and phishing infrastructure
- Incident response run on your behalf where the threat is live
- Findings, actions taken and evidence written up per incident
- Recommendations on the underlying gap that allowed it
There is no limit on the number of domains, public-facing IP addresses or VIP accounts we monitor, so the scope does not need renegotiating every time your estate changes.
Dark web, deep web
Three depths, one organisation.
The terms dark and deep often get used interchangeably and they are not the same thing. The deep web is simply everything a search engine does not index — closed forums, paste sites, private groups. The dark web needs specialist software to reach at all. Your organisation can appear on either of them, or both.
What that means in practice
- A single leak often surfaces on all three layers within days
- Depth indicates who can reach it, not how serious it is
- Surface findings are the ones your brand team notices first
- Deep web sources need membership, not just a crawler
- Dark web marketplaces need standing access and tradecraft
- Correlating across all three is what tells you a campaign is forming
Most tools sold as dark web monitoring only reach the layers that are cheap to collect. The value is in the layers that are not.
ISO 27001:2022
Threat intelligence stopped being optional in 2022.
The 2022 revision of ISO 27001 introduced Annex A Control 5.7. Organisations are expected to collect and analyse information about the threats they face, and to turn that analysis into something they can base security decisions on.
Most organisations can describe the intent. Fewer can hand an auditor the evidence — which sources, analysed by whom, feeding which decisions, with what result. That is the part we document as a matter of course, because it is the same record we use to run the service.
Download the solution briefIn practice
Dark and deep web threat intelligence in action.
Talanos proactively prevented an attack on our staff and customers.
"The initial assessment was a really good report, easy to read, concise and well written. The team had also summarised the report in a slide which I included in my board presentation, which was most helpful. I was really impressed with their detection and response capability."
Questions
The things people ask before they start.
What does Talanos do when it discovers leaked credentials?
We establish whether the credential is live and whether it has already been used. With your explicit permission, that includes attempting to log in with the breached credential and attempting to exploit known vulnerabilities in a non-destructive way, so we can rate the real severity rather than the theoretical one.
Nothing is attempted without that permission, and nothing we do compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of your data.
Is your threat intelligence sourced ethically?
Yes. Everything we gather directly, including from the dark web forums and Telegram groups we hold membership of, is gathered ethically. We never purchase data from illegitimate sources, and we never take part in activity that would compromise another organisation.
Do you provide takedown services?
Yes. Where we find a typosquatting domain infringing your trademark, weaponised with a mail server or hosting a phishing page, we start a proactive takedown to stop the campaign before it launches. We also report abuse to the email and hosting providers involved, so the attacker has to rebuild rather than simply move on.
Our success rate is high because we follow strict abuse-reporting guidelines, provide detailed evidence, and escalate persistently.
What do you need from us to get started?
Your domains, your public-facing IP addresses and the accounts you consider high value. There is no agent to install and no access to your network required — everything is collected from outside your perimeter.
How is this different from a free dark web scan?
A scan tells you what was visible at the moment it ran. This is a standing capability: continuous collection, human triage of every indicator, and action taken on your behalf when something is real.
If you want to see where you stand before committing to anything, start with our free exposure snapshot.
Can you cover more than one brand or subsidiary?
Yes. There is no limit on the number of domains, public-facing IP addresses or VIP accounts we monitor, so group structures and multiple trading names are covered without renegotiating scope.
Next step
Find out how you're already exposed.
If you want to talk it through, our intelligence analysts will walk you through what the service covers, what it does not, and whether it is the right thing for your organisation right now. If you would rather see something concrete first, start with the free snapshot.
Managed service providers serving small and medium enterprises may qualify for partner pricing — ask us about it.