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Specialized Cyber Defense & Operational Agents

Problem Statement

Threat actors frequently post compromised corporate credentials, database dumps, and internal access keys on underground dark web forums and paste sites. Security teams cannot manually monitor hundreds of onion sites continuously.

Goal

Build an automated agent that ingests dark web forum scrapings, identifies corporate domain mentions, and alerts security teams to credential exposure.

Outcome Measurement

  1. Detection Speed: Credential leaks discovered within minutes of public posting.
  2. Mitigation Rate: Automated credential revocation triggered immediately upon alert validation.

How the Code was Built

Filters dark web text dumps for corporate domain indicators and extracts exposed credential pairs.

Executable Code

from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI
class DarkWebLeakAlert(BaseModel):
domain_matched: str
exposed_email: str
credential_hash_type: str
leak_severity: str
immediate_action: str
def parse_dark_web_dump(forum_post_text: str, target_domain: str) -> DarkWebLeakAlert:
llm = ChatOpenAI(model="gpt-4o", temperature=0)
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(DarkWebLeakAlert)
prompt = f"Analyze dark web paste dump for leaked credentials belonging to target domain '{target_domain}':\n{forum_post_text}"
return structured_llm.invoke(prompt)
if __name__ == "__main__":
dump_text = "LEAKED DATABASE snippet: admin@company.com:$2a$12$e89abc1234567890 (Hash type: bcrypt) - Selling full dump on forum."
res = parse_dark_web_dump(dump_text, "company.com")
print(f"Target Email: {res.exposed_email}")
print(f"Severity: {res.leak_severity}")
print(f"Action: {res.immediate_action}")

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