darknet

There are many stereotypes about the "dark side of the Internet". The most common one is the idea of the "dark side" as a haven for drug dealers, psychopaths and terrorists, in which they are anonymous and elusive. In part, this is true – in the darknet, you can find many sites that exploit...

How does the most confidential browser work, does it really guarantee users anonymity, and should it be banned for the sake of fighting cybercrime? Contrary to popular belief, criminal activity accounts for an insignificant proportion of the Tor network. In 2020, researchers from the United...

How ransomware for dummies is distributed on shadow forums and what it threatens. Experts from Sophos cyber intelligence department identified 19 different types of ransomware on four shadow forums between June 2023 and February 2024, which were offered for sale for relatively small amounts...

An international cyber operation beheaded a giant of the European underground market. As part of an international operation led by Germany, the activity of the illegal trading platform Nemesis, which is popular abroad, was stopped. Local police reported seizing the resource's infrastructure and...

One of the largest darknet marketplaces, AlphaBay, has been active since 2014, and in 2017 it was eliminated by law enforcement agencies, along with another large marketplace, Hansa Market. Then the closure of AlphaBay and Hansa Market was the result of a major international operation involving...

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Attackers stole data from dozens of directories. In October 2023, Doctor Web specialists investigated an incident related to a targeted cyber attack on a Russian machine-building enterprise. The attack began by sending phishing emails with the subject "investigation" of certain criminal cases...

Cybersecurity experts are increasingly going astray and choosing the criminal side of the darknet, offering their services to cybercriminals. This puts businesses in a difficult position, forcing them to either cut profits in order to retain valuable personnel, or find ways to protect themselves...

The investigation of the attack will show how the hack will affect the national security of the country. The Swiss National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) has published a report on the investigation of data leaks after a cyberattack using a ransomware program on Xplain. As a result of the...

Group-IB has found out why the chatbot has become a gold mine for cybercriminals. According to Group-IB, between January and October 2023, more than 225,000 logs containing compromised ChatGPT user credentials were put up for sale on the darknet. The credentials were found in the logs of the...

Hackers thank the FBI for the "free pentest" and urge them to conduct it more often. On the darknet, the operation to distribute the LockBit ransomware has once again intensified, just a few days after international law enforcement agencies took control of its infrastructure . LockBit moved...

How information from the dark web contributed to the brutal murder of a 16-year-old schoolgirl. In the UK, after the murder of 16-year-old schoolgirl Brianna Gay, a heated discussion broke out about restricting children's access to the darknet. The tragic incident that occurred last year raised...

Perhaps your genome is already waiting for its buyer on the shelves of the shadow market. In the fall of 2023, a hacker under the pseudonym Golem posted an announcement on a cybercrime forum about hacking the database of 23andMe, one of the largest DNA testing companies on the market. Later...

Mozilla offers a new solution for monitoring online privacy. Mozilla is launching a new paid privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. A subscription will cost users $8.99 per month for an annual fee. As part of the service, Mozilla will automatically search for subscriber...

The Southern District of Ohio court found an Indian citizen guilty of selling prohibited psychotropic substances on darknet trading platforms and confiscated $150 million in crypto assets to the state. According to court documents, from 2012 to 2018, Indian citizen Banmeet Singh provided...

Anatoly Legkodymov confessed to running a $2 billion laundering center. Anatoly Legkodymov, owner of the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to managing Bitzlato, which helped cybercriminals and drug traffickers launder more than $700 million. This is reported by the US Department...

Intelligence agencies have yet to figure out the attackers who are hiding behind the mysterious leak site. As it became known from the report of the research group SafetyDetectives, recently there was a large-scale leak of documents on vaccination of more than 2 million Turkish citizens. The...

Police and FSB officers detained the organizers and active participants of the criminal organization, who are suspected of manufacturing and selling counterfeit money. An investigator of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Rostov region...

The investigation continues, but it is already known that the election commission is not guilty. As it became known, as a result of hacking the servers of DataNet Systems, a hosting company for the District of Columbia election Commission, attackers could gain access to the personal data of all...

The escalation of the conflict has led to an increase in the value of personal data on the dark web. Specialists of the information security company ZeroFOX report that on the hacker forum RAMP, a user under the pseudonym "blackfield" put up for sale a database containing personal data, photos...