Learn to recognise indicators of dark web activity on the surface web, including .onion link formats, marketplace terminology, and behavioural patterns that signal deeper investigation is warranted.
Progress from safe access to investigating dark web marketplaces, forums, communication channels, and cryptocurrency transactions
Extend your investigative reach into alternative darknets including I2P, Lokinet, and Freenet, understanding how actors use these networks and how to navigate them safely.
The Dark Web Bundle is a structured two-course pathway that takes you from foundational awareness through to investigative capability on the dark web.
Dark Web Essentials covers safe access, content recognition, and basic capture methods.
Illuminating the Dark Web builds on that foundation with techniques for investigating dark web actors, monitoring forums and marketplaces, analysing communication channels including PGP and Telegram, navigating alternative darknets such as I2P, Lokinet, and Freenet.
The bundle includes the following courses:
Develop specialist capability for dark web investigations. Learn to search various online environments, investigate actors, monitor communication channels, and operate across multiple darknets including I2P, Lokinet, and Freenet.
$399
Foundational dark web capability: understand the technology behind the dark web, recognise surface web indicators, safely access Tor for preliminary research, capture content, and know when to escalate. Prerequisite for Illuminating the Dark Web.
$199
This bundle is approximately 8–12 hours of self-paced learning across both courses.
Dark Web Essentials provides the foundation in roughly 1.5–2 hours, while Illuminating the Dark Web covers investigative techniques across the remaining content. Both courses are fully self-paced, and additional content will be added to Illuminating the Dark Web over the coming months — included at no extra cost.
This bundle is designed for investigators, intelligence analysts, and OSINT practitioners who encounter dark web elements during their work and need to move beyond awareness into practical investigative capability. It suits law enforcement, national security, corporate security, and due diligence professionals who need to safely access, document, and investigate dark web content.
Dark Web Essentials has no prerequisites — basic familiarity with web browsers and internet use is assumed. Illuminating the Dark Web builds directly on Essentials and assumes completion of that course or equivalent foundational knowledge. Both courses are included in this bundle, so you'll progress through them in the right order.
