231 Evaluating the WeTheNorth Illicit Online Forum

Recorded Future’s Insikt Group recently discovered a new Canada-focused darknet marketplace called WeTheNorth. This localized criminal marketplace features a variety of illegal goods and services for sale, many of which pose a threat to local and global enterprises. WeTheNorth administrators have gone to great lengths to create a marketplace geared toward protecting Canadian buyers and sellers and fostering a relatively safe place to complete transactions. On this week’s episode we welcome back Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Charity Wright to provide insights on WeTheNorth and the techniques she and her colleagues used to analyze the group.

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The podcast that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. We take listeners into the world of cyber and intelligence without all the techie jargon. Every Tuesday and Friday, former NPR investigations correspondent Dina Temple-Raston and the team draw back the curtain on ransomware attacks, mysterious hackers, and the people who are trying to stop them.