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A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting records of millions of American citizens on a website in the dark web. The data were published on a website linked to a notorious cybercrime forum, […]
NOT SO LONG ago, the Silk Road was not only a bustling black market for drugs but a living representation of every cryptoanarchist’s dream: a trusted trading ground on the Internet where neither the government’s laws nor the Drug War they’ve spawned could reach. Today, that illicit narco-utopia is long gone, its once-secret server in […]
It has now been proven that almost anyone and any company can get hacked including the firm that manufactures car breathalyzers. A hacker dubbed as ROR[RG] reportedly hacked into LMG Holdings’ data and dumped some of its internal documents on Dark Web. The hacker acts as the moderator of the newly re-booted Hell hacking forum. Among […]
IT’S BEEN NEARLY a year since a jury determined that Ross Ulbricht had created and run the anonymous black market for drugs known as the Silk Road, a conviction that resulted in a life sentence without parole. Today his defense team finally had their chance to contest that outcome, and with it, one more chance […]
THE SO-CALLED DARK web, for all its notoriety as a haven for criminals and drug dealers, is slowly starting to look more and more like a more privacy-preserving mirror of the web as a whole. Now it’s gained one more upstanding member: the non-profit news organization ProPublica. On Wednesday, ProPublica became the first known major […]
Short Bytes: Last year, the FBI engaged in the largest ever law enforcement hacking campaign to shut down “the largest remaining known child pornography hidden service in the world.” The FBI made use of a hacking tool called network investigative technique (NIT) to sniff the IP addresses of the pedophile users and busted them. Back […]
The Hell hacking forum is back from the hell and now available on the Dark Web. The Dark Web hacking forum named Hell was shut down last year when a data dump of personal details of users was found on the website. However, a few months after its reported shutdown by authorities, Hell is back. […]
Meet Jeff Becker and his creation: git.psi.i2p. Lots of people seek anonymity these days, for various reasons, may it be because of abusive governments, because of a personal preference, or because they are in the middle of not-so-legal operations. For these type of people Tor, and most recently I2P, have been some of their best friends. […]
J D Wetherspoon, a famous pub chain in Ireland and the UK has announced that they’ve faced a massive data breach when hackers steal sensitive data from their database. The breach took place in June 2015 in which about 657,000 customers had their financial data stolen. The Financial Times reported that stolen data contained names, […]
Short Bytes: Anonymous hacktivist group has just hacked an ISIS propaganda website on the dark web. Trolling ISIS and its supporters, the group has replaced it with an advertisement of a website selling drugs like Viagra and Prozac. Just a couple of days ago, we reported that ISIS is spreading its operations to the Darknet […]
Short Bytes: In order to protect its online operations from security agencies and hackers, and to propel its propaganda, ISIS is looking to find shelter in the Dark Web. It should be noted after the recent attacks on Paris, the terrorist group is facing more surveillance and cyberattacks. The Islamic State terrorists are learning new […]
Al-Hayat, an agency that spreads all the content relevant to ISIS on different online platforms has announced the ISIS intentions on moving their operations to Dark web. There are a number of blogs and forums the agency posts regarding ISIS activities. Most significant of them are the Ansar Khilafah blog and the Shamikh forums. In […]
Over the weekend, a reader (@flanvel) directed Salted Hashto a post on a Dark Web marketplace selling a number of questionable, if not outright illegal goods. The post in question offered a list of 590,000 Comcast email addresses and corresponding passwords. As proof, the seller offered a brief list of 112 accounts with a going […]
The dark web is well known as a space where anything can be bought or sold: guns, drugs, stolen data, and extreme pornography are all relatively easy to get hold of with a few clicks of a mouse. But anonymity networks such as Tor, as well as the hidden sites they facilitate, can also act […]
Over the years, the McAfee Labs team has worked with IT security vendors, law enforcement and others to identify and evaluate numerous websites, chat rooms, and other online platforms, communities, and marketplaces where stolen data is bought and sold. Drawing on this experience, its researchers can now provide an overall assessment of the “state of […]
Short Bytes: Increasing data breaches have made the personal identifiable information (PII) market very hot. The latest report outlines the different aspects of data breaches. Read more here. Recently I wrote a piece describing the ways to know if your identity was hacked/stolen in some recent data breach. Many of you are unaware of the […]
Short Bytes: The Dark Web sites running with .onion domain are now much safer to visit. Now, .onion has got a Special Use Domain status that grants it an official recognition and the websites are eligible for security certificates like the ordinary sites. The Dark Web is often painted as a place that is scary […]
Earlier today, a former United States secret service agent pleaded guilty for the theft of over $820,000 worth of digital currency, Bitcoin, during the federal investigation of an online marketplace, Silk Road, which was being used to facilitate the sale and purchase of illegal drugs as well as other illicit goods. According to the Department […]
Tor is a free software that is widely used by people to protect their identity and avoid network surveillance. The Onion Router (TOR) stops the tracking of your internet activity by directing your traffic through a free and volunteer network of more than 6000 relays spread across the world. Recently a post was published on […]
The underground economy is a large group of websites that make it possible for hackers and fraudsters to trade illegal services and stolen goods such as credit card and online account credentials. And there’s a rather straight-forward method in which operations typically take place in the underground, one that involves sellers, buyers, and sometimes forum moderators and administrators who […]
Ross Ulbricht, 31, the accused brain and mastermind behind dark web marketplace Silk Road has been sentenced to life in prison on Friday. Ulbricht was sentenced in a New York City courtroom by United States District Court judge, Katherine Forrest where he was accused of running an illegal underground platform Silk Road and orchestrating a scheme that enabled more than $200 […]