Is the dark web safe? ... nope
Red on Red: The Attack Landscape of the Dark Webhttp://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/red-on-red-the-attack-landscape-of-the-dark-web/Conclusions
We didn’t think that hidden services operated within Tor would be attacked by other cyber-criminals. We were proven wrong—twice, in fact.
First, we were surprised when we learned that Tor proxies were making the Dark Web not as “dark” as some people would think. As a result, we started filtering out this traffic from our honeypots.
We thought this would prevent any further attacks, but we were mistaken. The attacks continued to take place. It turned out that cybercriminals were looking for services operated by other organizations and manually conducting attacks. Given that indexing and searching is more difficult within the Dark Web, this shows the amount of effort motivated criminals are putting into finding and disabling sites controlled by their competitors.
Apparently, there is no honor among thieves.