With the rapid development of technology, our security on the internet has started to be endangered rapidly. In addition to many fraud methods, the breach of your personal data due to credit card frauds through fake shopping sites and hacking of companies has become one of today’s “ordinary” frauds. Especially during the pandemic period, many people closed their homes and even started to do their grocery shopping online. When this was the case, our security on the internet became much more important.
Russia-based world giant security company Kaspersky, on the other hand, revealed in a report that there has been a huge increase in hacker advertisements published on DarkWeb in the past 2 years. Moreover, many of these advertisements target companies and individual internet users.
More than 200,000 hacker postings posted since 20202
According to the report released yesterday by Kaspersky, more than 200,000 hacker job postings were posted on 155 forums on the DarkWeb between January 2020 and June 2022. While 41% of these postings were published in 2020, it was stated in March that most of these job postings were closed and possibly hackers were hired. Kaspersky, on the other hand, claims that those who applied for these postings may have been attracted by software developers and white hat hackers (well-intentioned) who quit their jobs during the pandemic process and have plenty of free time at home.
In addition, the report includes detailed information about the “positions” of these job postings. While 61% of job postings are opened to search for virus and malware developers, job postings such as attack experts, fake site designers, reverse engineer, analysts, testers and IT administrators are also very popular.
There are also many people who want to make money illegally.
Kaspersky’s report also states that users in various forums are looking for jobs on the DarkWeb to earn money illegally. As in the example you see above, people working in world giant brands such as Fitbit and Logitech apply to such jobs to earn money, even if it is illegal.
In addition, it is also included in the report that many software developers and developers who were quarantined due to Covid-19 and had to spend a long time at home, resorted to illegal ways to earn money and posted ads on DarkWeb. The reason for this is that individuals who are quarantined or quit their jobs due to the pandemic want to earn money. If you remember, during 2020, many technology companies switched to working from home, downsizing, and even some companies declared bankruptcy. Here, some of the employees who left these companies are directly on the DarkWeb. The goal is to earn easy money from home.
Although these ads, which have increased rapidly in 2020, have gradually lost their popularity these days, it should not be forgotten that thousands of new hackers are currently looking for victims. For this reason, you need to be much more careful when shopping online, examining the e-mails you receive, and even when using the websites and applications you use every day.
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