Defeating Tor Hidden Services/Darkmarkets: The Latest Updates, Evidence Collection, Countermeasures and Investigation Techniques

Sponsored by: TeleStrategies' ISS World

Online webinar:
Wednesday November 17, 2021
9:00-10:00 AM - New York, EDT
14:00-15:00 - London Time

Presented by:
Dr Gareth Owenson BSc PhD PgC FHEA - Chief Technology Officer - Searchlight Security Ltd

Moderator: Dr. Matthew Lucas – TeleStrategies ISS World

Free and open to government, telecoms, private enterprise security executives and ISS vendors. Pre-registration with your government or corporate issued email address is required.

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Defeating Tor Hidden Services/Darkmarkets: The Latest Updates, Evidence Collection, Countermeasures and Investigation Techniques

Tor has been around a long time and has proven to be an effective Internet anonymizing protocol for hosting dark markets and hiding various illegal activities. However, there are techniques that law enforcement can use to reveal the identities of hosts and users. This webinar will bring you up to date on those techniques as well as the latest challenges and issues related to defeating Tor. 

Specific topics include:

  • Overview of Tor-based criminal activity (e.g., drugs, exploitation, trafficking, laundering);
  • Directions of darkmarkets: new models in how operators make money; directions in cryptocurrencies/payments; proliferation of smaller and localized markets;
  • Understanding the Tor protocol suite (e.g., Tor v3.0), key updates, and background on the community developing/supporting Tor;
  • Profile and sophistication of typical Tor market operators and users;
  • Common techniques to defeat Tor operators and unmasking IPs (e.g., site fingerprinting, Tor exploits, browser vulnerability exploits, finding misconfigurations, inducing Tor to leak IPs, and more);
  • Tor countermeasures, blocklists and misinformation to watch for;
  • Best practices, pitfalls and the “do’s and don’ts” during Tor investigations;
  • Darkmarket and HS seizures: What to do next in terms of evidence collection, unmasking users and harvesting user data;
  • Future direction of HS investigation techniques, products and services (e.g., AI-assisted technologies, automation).

The presentation will use recent Tor investigations and cases to illustrate the techniques and challenges. 

Presented by:
Dr Gareth Owenson BSc PhD PgC FHEA - Chief Technology Officer - Searchlight Security Ltd

Moderator: Dr. Matthew Lucas – TeleStrategies ISS World

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