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Ruslan Bondars and Jurijs Martisevs were identified as the main culprits behind a crime in which they were selling malware over the dark web. The malware sold was meant to disrupt many U.S businesses. The indictment According to an indictment released by the Federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, the two men were selling malicious software […]
AlphaBay, one of the most popular and largest marketplace on the Dark Web has gone offline, and users believe something fishy is going on – The market is also known as “the new Silk Road,” of the Dark Web and is famous for selling drugs, databases, weapons and other illegal items. Usually, when the marketplace goes offline for […]
This new phishing scam shows that even some dark web criminals are not the smartest, regardless of their skill level. 35 years old, professional technology, Michael Richo, has recently been arrested for using phishing techniques to steal Bitcoin’s dark web criminals. In official court documents, Richo managed a masked phishing site from popular darknet markets. […]
Izumi Nakamitsu, chief of UN’s Disarmament Affairs addressed the rising issue of how terrorists can access weapons of mass destruction using technologies such as 3D-printing, drones, and the dark web to create and deliver tools for use in these weapons. The dark web The dark web was highlighted in particular as the primary enabler of […]
[newad][/newad] A Dark Web hacker going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked the popular Internet radio and social networking website 8Track.com and has stolen 18 million accounts (18,674,447) of its registered users. The hacker tells HackRead that the website was hacked earlier this month in which he was able to grab account […]
Experts who understand how phone networks work as well as what their vulnerabilities are have warned about its dangers for years. However, it would seem that the attacks they feared were even more common than previously believed. Telecoms have been using a private Signaling System Number 7 (SS7) network that has been vulnerable to cyber attacks. And […]
There may be a serious conflict between Qatar and the UAE (United Arab Emirates), but hackers see no difference, for them, it is all about making easy money. Today, one of HackRead.com’s researchers found out that around three Dark Web vendors are selling data belonging to customers from UAE InvestBank and Qatar National Bank. It must be […]
Mac devices are known for their security, but things are changing now since hackers and cyber-criminals are coming up with new ways to target Mac users. Recently, the IT security researchers at Fortinet discovered a ransomware campaign that uniquely targets Mac OS and is being offered as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) on dark web. Although this […]
The dark web marketplaces and undergrown marketplaces are full of vendors selling databases, weapons, illegal drugs and malicious software. Now security researchers have discovered yet another ransomware malware not only selling victims’ data but also selling them online. Researchers from Heimdal Security have discovered a variant of the Jaff malware which is part of a larger […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has identified dark web users after they downloaded media through a file sharing services. The DHS obtained the IP addresses of several suspects that visited a child porn site hosted in the Tor network. According to court filings, the suspects shared links to password-protected child pornography media on the Ziifile […]
With darkness is criminal not to browse the web search and another on the forums is to have legal problems. The truth is that: humanity is strange arbitrary. Possible that someone will read an article on the internet black and want to immediately learn more. Moreover, he will actually want the experience and will get […]
Browsing the dark web is not criminal. Doing research and posting on forums is not going to get you in legal trouble. The fact is: humanity is incredibly curious. Chances are someone will read an article about the dark web and instantly want to know more. Moreover, they’ll want to experience it firsthand. Download Tor […]
Short Bytes: Tor or The Onion Router is a network that enables a user to stay anonymous on the internet and get rid of any possible surveillance, location tracking, etc. while using the internet. We can access the Tor network with the help of a modified Mozilla Firefox ESR web browser. Tor or The Onion […]
It’s sad, but someone, somewhere on the Dark Web will now be privy to all your eating habits, or at least the one that Zomato knows about. For the uninitiated, Zomato is an Indian food start-up that started in 2008. The search engine for food, restaurant and online delivery portal, that’s now has an app […]
Since 2015 the Dark Web marketplaces have been flourishing. From drugs, weapons, databases, fake documents to all sorts of illegal stuff are available for anyone at anytime. Recently, HackRead found out a vendor going by the online handle of “nclay” is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users […]
If you are using the famous file-transcoding app “Handbrake,” there is a bad news: The download server of the app was hacked according to the reports. If you installed the software between 14:30 UTC May 2 and 11:00 UTC May 6, there is a pretty good chance that you may have been affected too. Currently, […]
A couple of days ago it was reported that Troy Hunt, a cyber security blogger got his hands on a trove of data that was compiled by cyber criminals through brute force technique and some collected from previous data breaches. The data Hunt discovered was in two lists with one list containing 457,962,538 accounts while the […]
Just yesterday it was reported that Steven W. Chase, a 58-year-old man from Naples, Florida and the owner of PlayPen, a Dark Web website hosting child porn was sent to prison for 30 years. Now, it emerged that Michael Angelo Savinelli, 49, a restaurant owner from the Florida Keys was arrested back on November 17, 2016, after law enforcement authorities […]
Playpen, an illegally operated website that distributed child pornography in different parts of the world, had its founder sentenced to 30 years of imprisonment after the FBI identified who he was. Almost 900 members of a global ‘dark web’ pedophile ring in the United States and Europe have been arrested after a two-year investigation. What exactly […]
Law enforcement in Slovakia has arrested two individuals for their involvement in drugs and weapons trafficking, among which, one is suspected of operating the Dark Web marketplace known as Bloomsfield. The arrests took place on March 1 and were carried out by the Slovak National Crime Agency (NAKA) at two locations in Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital. […]
Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out signals similar to what a Trojan would send to its control-and-command […]