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Exploring the DarknetsSession 186, March 7, 2018

Stephen Heath, VP – Security, Intrinium

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Stephen Heath

Has no real or apparent conflicts of interest to report.

Conflict of Interest

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Agenda• What is the Darknet?

• How do you get on the Darknet?

• What can you find on the Darknet?

• How do Darknet criminals get caught?

• Q&A

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Learning Objectives• Recognize how cyber-criminals operate within the marketplaces of

the darknet

• Contrast the reality of the darknet versus the urban legend created by sensationalized headlines

• Evaluate the risk of darknet usage within your organization

• Illustrate how stolen PHI and other PII is bought and sold

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Tor• “The Onion Router”

• Distributed Network of relays around the world

• Encrypts communications

• Protects against surveillance and analysis

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Disclaimer• This is the part where I start talking about criminal activity

• HIMSS actively discourages, and its employees are prohibited from, engaging in any illegal activity

• I (nor my employer/sponsors/etc.) do not condone this activity

• Topics discussed may be offensive to some people

• If you go on the darknet, you may see things you never wanted to see

• Do not do illegal stuff

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How to criminals get caught?• Attacks against Tor

• 0-day attacks

• Bad OpSec / Metadata leaks

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Protecting your networks• NextGen Firewalls

– Application control

– SSL Decrypt

• If you detect Tor activate Incident Reponse

– Employee is doing something they shouldn’t, or…

– Something/someone is in your network

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Questions• Stephen Heath, VP, Security

• Intrinium.com

• Email: stephen.heath@Intrinium.com

• Twitter: @hackerhiker