Who are Darksight Analytics
Darksight Analytics actively monitors the dark web and provides comprehensive insights into a variety of online social phenomena, including fraud, extremism, cybercrime, and illicit markets. By applying advanced OSINT techniques and combining them with qualitative and quantitative methods, Darksight delivers actionable intelligence to both public and private sector clients.
Our consultants come from diverse and complementary backgrounds in social sciences, data science, and the military, with demonstrated experience within the field of intelligence. This interdisciplinary foundation enables Darksight Analytics to uncover hidden networks, track emerging threats, and understand the sociotechnical dynamics that shape digital environments.
Darksight Analytics was founded to bridge the gap between online activity and real-world impact - offering intelligence products that support strategic decision-making, risk assessments, and investigations across sectors.
How Darksight Analytics Uses OSINT and vHUMINT to Uncover Emerging Digital Threats
At Darksight Analytics, we rely on two core intelligence disciplines to map and understand online threats: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Virtual Human Intelligence (vHUMINT).
OSINT involves collecting and analyzing publicly available information from the internet - ranging from open forums and social media to leaked databases and domain infrastructure. It enables us to detect patterns, trace threat actors, and identify indicators of malicious activity, and inform key stakeholders about emerging online threats.
vHUMINT refers to the use of virtual personas and human engagement in online environments. This method allows us to gather insight from closed or semi-open spaces where threat actors operate - such as private chat groups, fringe communities, and illicit marketplaces.
We apply these methods to proactively monitor encrypted messaging platforms like Session, Signal, Element, and Telegram, as well as the dark web, the deep web, and mainstream social media. This enables us to uncover emerging digital threats, with a particular focus on those targeting youth - including recruitment into illicit networks, exposure to extremist ideologies, and online deviance.
By blending OSINT and vHUMINT with sociological analysis, Darksight Analytics delivers actionable insights to decision-makers, educators, and frontline professionals - empowering them to better understand and respond to emerging online threats.
We’re Providing Actionable Insights
Darksight Analytics is your go-to partner for intelligence-driven research, combining the power of data science with the depth of sociology. We specialize in monitoring the dark web and other hidden online spaces, providing specialists in both the private and public sectors with valuable insights.
For private sector professionals, whether you're tracking fraud, cybercrime, or market trends, Darksight helps you uncover hidden networks, digital threats, and behavioral patterns. Our data-driven approach ensures that you get actionable intelligence in real-time, allowing you to stay ahead of potential risks or providing valuable reports for your clients.
For the public sector, Darksight Analytics primary vision is to bring sociological insights - helping you understand complex human behaviors behind online social phenonema - whether it is analyses of hostile online environments on encrypted chat apps or digital threats targeting the youth. Our vision is to inform specialists and decision makers about emergent online social threats.
By blending data science and sociology, Darksight Analytics provides the perfect methodology to help you make informed, evidence-based decisions. Let us be your partner in navigating the complexities of the dark web, delivering the insights you need to protect and serve in today’s digital landscape.
For Investigative Journalists
Darksight Analytics is experienced in investigative research. Whether you are researching financial crimes, sanctions violations, fraud, or organized crimes, Darksight can assist you. Darksight Analytics ensures full data integrity and confidentiality. Furthermore, we comply with high moral and ethical standards, as well as GDPR.
