Searchlight Cyber, a leader in dark web intelligence, announced a partnership with TRM Labs, a top provider of blockchain intelligence solutions, to integrate advanced cryptocurrency analysis into its Cerberus dark web investigation platform. This collaboration, announced in Portsmouth, England, and San Francisco, enhances the ability of law enforcement and government agencies to trace illicit funds and combat dark web crimes such as ransomware, drug trafficking, and financial misconduct.
Searchlight Cyber partners with TRM Labs to enhance Cerberus with blockchain intelligence.
Integration allows tracking of cryptocurrency addresses, transaction histories, and fund flows.
Cerberus supports law enforcement in investigating dark web criminality.
TRM Labs’ platform traces over 33 blockchains and 70 million digital assets.
Partnership aims to disrupt pseudo-anonymity in dark web financial transactions.
Used in cases like the $24M dark web crypto laundering takedown in 2025.
The partnership integrates TRM Labs’ blockchain analytics into Searchlight Cyber’s Cerberus platform, enabling investigators to analyze cryptocurrency addresses found on the dark web. “The blockchain intelligence provided by TRM Labs探索
Assistant: Labs allows users to view detailed transaction histories and trace assets across blockchains, with the option to pivot into TRM’s platform for deeper analysis. “Criminal economies on the dark web have thrived on the back of two technological developments: the ability to host sites on dark web networks like Tor and the use of cryptocurrencies for payment,” said Dr. Gareth Owenson, Co-Founder and CTO of Searchlight Cyber. “This partnership gives investigators a powerful combination of tools they can use to ‘follow the money’.”
Searchlight’s Cerberus platform, used by law enforcement and government agencies, leverages over 15 years of dark web intelligence from marketplaces, forums, and leak sites to identify criminal activities. The integration with TRM Labs enhances Cerberus by providing blockchain data to track wallets linked to illicit activities. “TRM Labs empowers organizations to rapidly trace and understand blockchain activity with trusted intelligence,” said Rahul Raina, Co-Founder and CTO at TRM Labs. This unified workflow eliminates data silos, accelerates investigations, and delivers precise insights into threats like ransomware and nation-state actors.
The partnership strengthens investigations by linking dark web identifiers, such as cryptocurrency addresses, to real-world entities, providing critical evidence for criminal cases. For example, TRM Labs’ blockchain intelligence supported the FBI and DOJ in dismantling a $24 million dark web crypto laundering operation in 2025, tracing funds through intermediary wallets to accounts controlled by Anurag Murarka, a key operator in darknet markets like White House Market. TRM’s platform, which supports over 33 blockchains and 70 million assets, including NFTs and DeFi protocols, enables investigators to detect patterns like peeling chains and layering, enhancing the ability to disrupt illicit financial flows.
Searchlight Cyber, based in Portsmouth, England, specializes in attack surface management and digital risk protection, serving clients like the UK’s National Crime Agency. TRM Labs, headquartered in San Francisco, is trusted by global agencies and businesses for its blockchain forensics, with recent partnerships like Magnet Forensics further expanding its investigative reach. The collaboration aligns with TRM’s mission to build a safer crypto ecosystem, addressing the $34 billion in cryptocurrencies stolen or laundered in 2023 alone.
This partnership positions Searchlight Cyber and TRM Labs to outmaneuver dark web criminals by combining cutting-edge blockchain analytics with deep dark web intelligence, offering a robust solution for tracing illicit funds and enhancing global cybersecurity efforts.
Searchlight Cyber was founded in 2017 with a mission to stop threat actors from acting with impunity. Its External Cyber Risk Management Platform helps organizations to identify and protect themselves from emerging cybercriminal threats with Attack Surface Management and Threat Intelligence tools designed to separate the signal from the noise. It is used by some of the world’s largest enterprises, government and law enforcement agencies, and the Managed Security Service Providers at the forefront of protecting customers from external threats.
TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence platform includes solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure crypto ecosystem. TRM is based in San Francisco, CA, and is hiring across engineering, product, sales, and data science.
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