What is the Shadow Web? Mysterious online world of hackers and criminals.

What is the Shadow Web? Mysterious online world of hackers and criminals.

We have heard the name surface web, deep web or dark web. But, what is the shadow web? We use the internet most of the day. And when it comes to using the internet, we spend most of our time on Facebook or YouTube. Besides, we do all other social media, websites and online shopping. And we use Google chrome, Bing or Microsoft Edge browser to search various things on the internet. So, what exactly is the shadow web?
What is the Shadow Web?
You will often see that many people use an ice block in the ocean as an example to explain the dark web or deep web. By that picture is meant, how much of the internet we are using and how much is hidden from us. Our visible part of the Internet is the Surface Web. The things we search for on the Internet and find very easily are basically part of the Surface web. This includes websites that are indexed in various search engines. These are like: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter etc. Next comes the Deep Web and the Dark Web. Dark web is basically a subset of deep web.
And shadow web is a next step of dark web.
There are many reports about what the shadow web actually is. Some claim that it is a password protected web. And it can only be accessed through the dark web and requires the Tor browser to access it. However, you can guess that the shadow web is much more suspicious than the surface web or the deep web.

So, what can you find on this Shadow Web? Well, this web is not good. Those who have accessed the shadow web say that they can find a lot of disturbing content here. Now you understand that with each level on the internet, they become more dark. That is, first there is surface web, then deep web and dark web, and finally we can say shadow web.
Although these things may seem very scary to us, the existence of the dark web has not been proven. A very small portion of the Internet users today are only familiar with the Dark Web. Many people are so curious about this small part. And that means they could have accessed a much smaller portion if there was a shadow web. Many say that the Shadow Web is nothing but a rumor and the Dark Web is the deepest web.
Others claim that the Shadow Web is a scam site within the Dark Web. Which is used to exchange crypto currency or conduct illegal activities online. There is even an alleged shadow web portal, to which the user must first pay a $200 fee to access.
So it can be said, what is shadow web and is it really real; There is no definite idea about it.