[thisisthenewme]

The dark net growing alongside the regular web is very interesting albeit worrisome. What helps one side helps the other, and the thing that hurts one also hurts the other. That's the main reason I really don't want Google or anyone else to cripple the ad-blockers because they really help with a lot of the attack vectors.

Anyway, kind of feels like the eventual outcome of Capitalism. You have a lack of supply to meet the growing demands of the cyber-criminals and fellow entrepreneurs rising up to close that void. Given the amount of money involved, not likely to ever stop. Not trying to give them any ideas but I'm wondering if there will be (or already is) venture capitalists investing in them. They most likely already have a 'Hacker News' to keep up with all the latest developments.

  According to the FBI, financial losses from cryptocurrency investment scams dwarfed losses for all other types of cybercrime in 2022, rising from $907 million in 2021 to $2.57 billion last year.

  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/fbi-warns-of-increasing-use-of-ai-generated-deepfakes-in-sextortion-schemes/

[cynicalsecurity]

TL;DR: Damn capitalism.