Limits Every Chapter Shares.
These boundaries apply across the report. Each chapter adds its own, listed beside its headline measure.
06 Shared by all 8 chapters
The unit Posts, not events.
Counts are posts, distinct texts, claims or coded samples from the Brandefense Blackhole collection. They are not incidents, victims, sellers, buyers or transactions.
The source One collection, not the whole underground.
The six newer chapters draw on a mostly Telegram-based collection. Closed forums, brokers and Tor sites are barely covered, so no chapter states a market total.
The timeline No trend across the label change.
Where a chapter counts posts by classifier label, counts are not compared across the May–July 2026 label change. October ends on the 27th.
The price Advertised, not market prices.
Prices and terms are what posts advertise, in their own unit and currency, and are never averaged across units. Nothing was bought, run or tested.
The reader AI labels, AI checks.
Posts were read and labelled by AI agents. Where a second pass exists, it was also AI, so agreement shows consistency, not accuracy.
The sign-off Approved by Brandefense analysts.
Claude Opus 5.5 prepared each chapter, Codex Astra checked its numbers against the chapter's data files, and Brandefense analysts approved the findings.
