August 22, 2026

Dark web monitoring, including Telegram groups and resources

While you are bughunter or not a tech person this will help you understand some dark side side of Darkweb which internet is not telling

By Imran Niaz

4 min read

This artical will save your time i worth more

A long time ago, when I started searching for dark web, I was watching some random video on the internet that was explaining what happens on the dark web. Then I found out that the dark web is not just an onion website. It is from Telegram groups to Discord groups and sometimes even WhatsApp groups. All the places where operations are taking place are part of it.

Even if you're in SOC, dark web monitoring is very important. It helps you find out if your organization's data or credentials are being shared or sold on the dark web, often before an actual attack happens. This gives SOC analysts time to respond fast and protect the organization. Sometimes, dark web monitoring can be even more valuable than bug hunting, because it helps you understand threats that are real and active right now, not just possible technical problems. For junior analysts, building skills in dark web monitoring can make you a stronger and more proactive defender.

After COVID-19, workspaces and coworking spaces changed everything, and with AI innovations moving faster, we also face new types of security challenges. For example, remote work makes it harder to keep all devices secure because people access company resources from many different places and networks.

Sensitive data can be accidentally shared, and phishing attacks can target employees working outside the main office. When AI technologies are adopted quickly, security policies might not keep up, and new vulnerabilities can be introduced. This means SOC teams have to stay alert for things like leaked credentials, unauthorized data sharing, and new attack methods that use AI tools. It is important for junior analysts to understand these challenges because they are a real part of day-to-day security tasks now.

My name is Imran Niaz. I am a Developer, SOC, and Pentester. Nowadays, I am working in Security Engineering, where I am playing a main role,If you got change to work in an organization where everyone is highly educated, even tech persons still make mistakes, which leads to data leads to fainital dataloss types of loss. '

in Beginaning of my career, I was looking for bugs; after time in have realize meny

Dark web monitoring is crucial, even for SOC roles.

How can I start monitoring the dark web effectively as a junior analyst?

When you are at home or in professional environments, always use a VPN over the network. This allow to manage traffic and everything. VPN does not mean a fancy VPN like NordVPN. OpenVPN with the UDP protocol in some countries like pakistan indian; some ISB providers do not allow you to install VPN over network wasy soloution you can install in you own server or a local server, which can help you avoid deep tracking where the traffic is routed.

Monitoring through VPN is very important. It is important to understand this because if you are monitoring through VPN, you will know about one thing. You can go to multiple computers and see what is happening. The traffic is often not as heavy as it is being shown to you. Each packet going through your system is telling about many things.

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The awful truth about VPNs

In the early years of my career, I used to think that no one would know anything about VPNs, even if you installed Tor. This was only half the truth. When I looked behind a good firewall installed in my company, it was watching everything. The company has installed packet tracers, so the advantage of having your own VPN is that you know which packet is going where. If you want to monitor a dark app, first of all, don't install any firewall. You are installing a VPN. Set up a system, connect the internet to it, and download and install the redundant cracked software on it.

For dark web monotring some thing can be use AIL framework if you want to run locally, SOC Redar, or an scritp which joing telegrams grups. If you have complete access to your network, you can access

How can it be useful for those who go bug hunting?

You must have seen many times that many times you need the company's email to find a job and sometimes those emails are not available there, so where will you get all these emails?

I was also wondering then I found out that data is shared on Telegram groups and Discord, where all these emails are available. These are different. A gang of combo list dramas is managing all this. Maybe you also have access to them.

This article is getting very long. In the next article, I will explain everything to you in a video, as much as I have learned. If you learned anything from this article, please let me know. If you have any questions, please let me know. Keep asking questions and keep growing.