Dark Web CTI Advanced

COURSE CONTENT

Expert Techniques

Why These Methods Work

Expert Techniques

This course focuses on one of the most in-demand skills in cyber threat intelligence: source development.

We don’t just teach you how to find basic forums or download leaks—we teach you how to discover and map out new sources as they emerge.

That means finding ransomware services, phishing domains, malware infrastructures, and threat actors early—before they go mainstream. You'll learn how to track these threats manually and turn raw findings into impactful, client-ready intelligence.

Hacker Mindset

Why These Methods Work

Expert Techniques

To find what others miss, you have to stop thinking like a traditional OSINT analyst.

This course helps you shift into a hacker mindset—thinking creatively, moving unconventionally, and breaking patterns. You’ll work through over 50 real-world exercises across dark web forums and platforms, including Russian and Chinese ecosystems.

The goal: to sharpen your instincts, spot threats earlier, and collect threat data like those who create it.

Why These Methods Work

Find New Dark Web Sources

Our training is 100% manual—no reliance on automated tools. Why? Because automation misses the most important data. Tools are often (99%) outdated, incomplete, or simply miss what matters.

Real intelligence comes from real research: smart searching, pivoting across sources, and understanding how these hidden ecosystems work.

This course gives you that edge—so you can collect intelligence that’s timely, accurate, and impossible to automate.

Find New Dark Web Sources

We give you the skills to find new forums, marketplaces, closed communities, and threat actor networks on the dark web—resources most analysts never even know exist.

You’ll learn how to pivot between platforms like Telegram, .onion sites, and hidden marketplaces, building a cross-platform strategy that keeps you ahead of threats.

This module shows you how to expand your reach and stay plugged in to what's really happening underground.

Who is this really for?

Find New Dark Web Sources

Who is this really for?

This is for those who already know the fundamentals, the internet is full of "what is dark web" or "how to download TOR" - we don't do none of that.

We get right into practice, right into gradual skill development, to the point, 0% theory, and directly jumping into the deep waters of CTI work.

If you want actual skills and don't want yourself or your team to rely on automation (that fails most of the time) = join us.

*It is great for beginners but well established professionals alike who want to sharpen their craft.

PRACTICAL REAL-LIFE Skills You'll Walk Away With

Skills to search and navigate country-specific threat ecosystems such as English, Russian and Chinese and conduct investigative work on various levels of depth.
Skills to search, identify collect, and pivot to and from newly emerged sources on the clear, deep, dark web (forums, chatrooms, markets, hidden services, groups, channels, communication platforms, etc) and identifying those new sources or valuable intelligence resources before most automated TIPs (Threat Intelligence Platforms) or CTI vendors do.
Skills to investigate and identify unique sources of intelligence that threat actors abuse (infused knowledge and techniques from Penetration Testing domain).
Skills of conducting Western-focus OSINT and SOCMINT investigations on threat actors, and therefore connecting profiles, connecting the dots, doing cross-platform investigations and using our own uniquely developed threat actor attribution frameworks.
Identify infrastructure, Phishing domains, MaaS, RaaS, and other types of threats today (e.g, identifying new trends of abuse of newly emerging technologies).
Skills of conducting in depth intelligence work with 0% reliance on any automated tools, all manual skills.
Skills of understanding and breaking the barriers of linguistics in Russian and Chinese ecosystems of cyber space and threats.
Skills to identify infrastructure that threat actors create, use, abuse.
Skills to generate, create, and write reports (learn about formats, templates and types of intelligence deliverables used today).
Learn about threat actor motives, profiles, types, psychology.
Learn about OPSEC, patterns, failures, what to look for in yours, and others' activities.

DARK WEB CYBER INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION

When most CTI vendors talk about identifying new dark web sources, they're operating on a lag of two weeks to three months behind the actual emergence. That's not a failure of effort.

That's what automated indexing structurally produces.

Exodus was identified late. Most forums are identified late. Ransomware operations run entire campaigns before they surface in any automated platform.

The window between a resource making its first moves in the underground and appearing in a TIP is exactly where the intelligence that matters lives — and it's the window that no tool closes.

Manual source development closes it. Knowing where to look before there's anything to index. Recognizing the early signatures of infrastructure standing up, forums establishing trust networks, markets seeding their first listings.

The Dark Web Advanced CTI course teaches how to operate inside that window. Not after it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at team@epcyber.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Is there an exam?

There is no formal exam at the end of the training. Instead, your learning is validated through a hands-on, practical approach, which we believe is far more effective than any traditional test.

Throughout the course, you'll be expected to replicate and practice each method, technique, and strategy covered in the slides. The real "test" is your ability to apply what you've learned in real-world scenarios.

This means following along with the demonstrations, reproducing the steps on your own, and building confidence through repetition and experimentation = trying new things using the same methods.

We firmly believe that hands-on practice is the best way to truly internalize these skills, much more so than memorizing answers for a written exam or practicing just one specific chain of investigation in an exam.

dark web Advanced cti program

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