Learn in the textbookMalware Distribution Routes and Extortion Tactics
DefinitionThe dark web (ダークウェブ) is a body of online content with a high degree of anonymity: ordinary search services do not find it, and some of it can only be reached with special software.
ExplanationBecause it is hard to trace who posts or visits, it is readily abused for selling stolen personal data and account credentials or for hiring out attacks. Sites that publish data stolen in double extortion attacks are sometimes hosted there too.
AnalogyIt is like a back-alley market with no sign and no address, where nobody knows who the customers really are.
Memory hookDark means out of the light; think of it as the place a search engine’s light never reaches.