On September 16, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center released the “Dark Web Monitoring 2025 Annual Report”. The report relies on dynamic monitoring of more than 100,000 dark web nodes, the system sorts out dark web threat incidents, data trafficking, major attack activities, and black ecosystem evolution in China and the world, and predicts risk trends in 2026. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Cyberspace Security, China Datang Group Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department Science and Technology Information Technology Corps, Hongli Xin'an Network Technology Co., Ltd., Shengbang Security Technology Group, etc. Jointly prepared by authorities from different fields of regulation, universities, and critical infrastructure enterprises. Research agency Shengbang Security believes that the use of AI tools has promoted the completion of iteration of the “dark web”. In the past, the supply part aimed at profit from a single economy has shifted to strategic destruction and geographical games, and participants have also upgraded from scattered hackers to combat forces and organized multinational criminal groups with a national background. Automated AI supply is replacing traditional manual infiltration. At the same time, the report also warned that due to the trend of black production services and intelligence, the attack threshold is constantly being lowered, and the risk of attacks on some emerging industries continues to rise. New types of assets such as commercial aerospace and satellite communications are entering the field of dark web transactions and attacks.

On September 16, the National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center released the “Dark Web Monitoring 2025 Annual Report”. The report relies on dynamic monitoring of more than 100,000 dark web nodes, the system sorts out dark web threat incidents, data trafficking, major attack activities, and black ecosystem evolution in China and the world, and predicts risk trends in 2026. The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Cyberspace Security, China Datang Group Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department Science and Technology Information Technology Corps, Hongli Xin'an Network Technology Co., Ltd., Shengbang Security Technology Group, etc. Jointly prepared by authorities from different fields of regulation, universities, and critical infrastructure enterprises. Research agency Shengbang Security believes that the use of AI tools has promoted the completion of iteration of the “dark web”. In the past, the supply part aimed at profit from a single economy has shifted to strategic destruction and geographical games, and participants have also upgraded from scattered hackers to combat forces and organized multinational criminal groups with a national background. Automated AI supply is replacing traditional manual infiltration. At the same time, the report also warned that due to the trend of black production services and intelligence, the attack threshold is constantly being lowered, and the risk of attacks on some emerging industries continues to rise. New types of assets such as commercial aerospace and satellite communications are entering the field of dark web transactions and attacks.