Unfortunately, even though infiltrating a modern cybercrime gang might give you fantastic insights into the gang’s TTPs (tools, techniques and procedures), and – as in this case – give you a chance of disrupting their operations by subverting the blackmail process on which those eye-watering extortion demands are based… …knowing even a gang administrator’s password to the criminals’ darkweb-based IT infrastructure generally doesn’t tell you where that infrastructure is based. Bidirectional pesudoanonymity One of the great/terrible aspects of the darkweb (depending on why you’re using it, and which side you are on), notably the Tor (short for the onion router) network that is widely favoured by today’s ransomware criminals, is what you might call its bidirectional pseudoanonymity.

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