This article has been translated from English to Gen Z Slang.
The Dark Web is basically the bizarro version of the Internet you know and love, fam. 😜
While it's this sneaky collection of thousands of low-key hidden websites that are “online,” the Dark Web ain’t getting a front-row seat on your fave search engine results. 🚫
Yup, the Dark Web ain't got no homie page that's gonna pop up when you're searchin' on Google or whatever. 😅
Recent tea spilled by the cyber squad and researchers shows that more than 50% of Dark Web sites are cookin' up some shady biz. 🕵️♂️
You can snag all sorts of wild stuff like drugs, pew-pews, stolen IDs, social security digits, hacked logins, and other illegal goodies there. 💀
It's also famous for planning epic DDoS attacks using botnets, trading swiped data, providing spy-for-hire services, and distributing sneaky hacks and keyloggers. 🤖
The main sauce for paying up in these parts? Cryptocurrencies, fam. They're all about those virtual coins. 💸
Silk Road was the real MVP of Dark Web markets, catching major clout until the FBI came in with the shutdown in 2013. 🚨
The OG site founder, Ross Ulbricht, got nabbed and is now doing time for life. Yikes! 😬
Between 2013 and 2020, the FBI and the U.S. squad cuffed more than a whopping USD $1 billion in Bitcoin tied to Silk Road. 💰