Dark web
monitoring
monitoringDark web monitoring that tells you which credentials actually put you at risk.
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Why dark web monitoring matters when credentials leak
Stolen passwords and company data are traded openly, often without the business ever knowing.
97%
Passwords stolen in someone else's breach
A work password reused on another site can hand an attacker a working login. Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2025 found more than 97% of identity attacks are password attacks.
Microsoft, Digital Defense Report, 2025. Click Here
47%
One leaked password is all it takes
Multifactor authentication blocks most of these attacks, but cover is patchy. Only 47% of UK businesses use two factor authentication, the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026 found, leaving the rest exposed.
UK Government, Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025/2026. Click Here
80%
Company data sold or used for extortion
Data theft is often the whole point. In 80% of the incidents Microsoft’s security teams investigated, attackers sought to steal data, and over half of attacks with a known motive were driven by extortion or ransomware.
Microsoft, Digital Defense Report, 2025. Click Here
Knowing what has leaked, and acting on it quickly, turns a hidden exposure into a manageable one.
Introduction
See which of your credentials are circulating in criminal marketplaces, & what to close down first
Dark web monitoring is the practice of searching criminal marketplaces, forums and breach dumps for data belonging to your organisation, most often employee usernames, passwords and session cookies harvested by infostealer malware or leaked through a third party you rely on. It matters because exposure usually precedes the attack rather than following it.
The 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 73% of ransomware victims had an associated infostealer infection or credential leak in the year before the attack, and for half of them the leak appeared within 95 days of it. Credentials are no longer the most common way in, vulnerability exploitation has taken that position, but credential abuse still shows up somewhere in the attack chain in 39% of breaches.
Our Delivery Framework
Why Choose Cybit
Most dark web services sell you a feed. We give you a decision.
Our Dark Web Exposure Assessment is analyst reviewed, delivered in two to three business days, and separates the credentials that need attention today from the ones that do not.
We know where the exposure sits in your sector: shared line logins in manufacturing, dormant subcontractor accounts in construction, seasonal leavers still live in retail, a single mailbox that becomes a regulatory event in legal and finance. And we can act on what we find. Cybit runs the identity, endpoint and Microsoft 365 layers too, so resets, conditional access and session revocation happen with us, not in a list of recommendations.
Our Process
Assess
Understand where you are today, identify opportunities for improvement and build a clear picture of your technology landscape
Advise
Turn insight into action with expert guidance and recommendations based on your business goals
Deliver
Implement solutions that create measurable impact and lasting value
Support
Our proactive management, ongoing optimisation and expert support keeps your tech performing at its best
What's Included
Domain focused dark web scan across criminal marketplaces and forums
Credential monitoring for compromised usernames and passwords
Corporate intelligence review of strategic information being traded
Threat level assessment based on what is found
Historical breach analysis for your domain
Criminal forum monitoring for discussions targeting your organisation
Risk based remediation priorities and ongoing monitoring recommendation
Data
Business Driver
The research points in one direction: exposure comes before the attack. Verizon’s 2026 DBIR found that 73% of ransomware victims had an infostealer infection or credential leak in the year before they were hit, and for half of them it surfaced within 95 days. Credential abuse still appears somewhere in the attack chain in 39% of breaches. Meanwhile IBM puts the mean time to identify and contain a breach at 247 days in 2026, reversing five years of improvement. Credential exposure is one of the very few signals available before an attacker has done anything at all.
Verizon, 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, May 2026. Click Here
Helpful Information
Frequently Asked Questions
It searches criminal marketplaces, forums and breach dumps for data belonging to your organisation, most often employee usernames, passwords and session cookies harvested by infostealer malware or leaked through a third party you rely on.
You get them ranked by risk, not as a raw list. Live credentials on a privileged account need action today. A personal address in a 2019 dump does not. Cybit can then carry out the resets, conditional access changes and session revocation with you.
Two to three business days for a single domain. It requires a signed authorisation so the work is conducted lawfully on your behalf.
Usually not. Most exposure comes from third party breaches and infostealer infections on personal devices where work credentials were saved. It is a warning, which is exactly what makes it useful.
While a on-off assessment establishes your position, exposure is continuous, so most organisations move to ongoing monitoring once they have seen the first report.
It removes most of the risk. Microsoft reports MFA can block over 99% of identity based attacks, but stolen session cookies can bypass it, which is why exposed credentials still need resetting and sessions revoking.
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