Kerala police expands use of grapnel tool across districts to monitor dark web, curb cybercrime

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a bid to enhance decentralised monitoring of dark web, the police have decided to allow use of ‘grapnel’ — a tool it developed to trawl data from the underbelly of internet — in all the 20 police districts in the state. Dark web is a part of the internet that can be accessed only using encrypted software and protocols.

Until now, ‘grapnel’ was allowed to be used only in the cyber division located in the police headquarters.