Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2016
Tor Project and Mozilla are working together to improve the security of Tor users and make harder for attackers to unmask them. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies continue to invest in order to de-anonymize Tor users. In the past, we received news about several techniques devised by various agencies to track Tor users, from the correlation attacks to the hack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2016
The notorious hacker Peace_of_Mind has hacked and defaced the official hacking and trading forum w0rm.ws and doxed its alleged owners. ‘Peace_of_Mind‘ (PoM) is a very active actor in The Real Deal Market and The Hell black markets, he offered for sale the dumps from clamorous data breaches, including Yahoo, LinkedIn and MySpace The w0rm.ws a famous hacking platform, it is an ‘invite only’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2016
Researchers devised two correlation attacks, dubbed DefecTor, to deanonymize Tor users using also data from observation of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies dedicate an important commitment in the fight of illegal activities in the Dark Web where threat actors operate in a condition of pseudo-anonymity. A group of security researchers at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
It’s a question of hours, security experts believe Yahoo will confirm the massive data breach that exposed at least 200 Million Yahoo accounts. Yahoo is ready to confirm a massive data breach that affected its service that has exposed several hundred million user accounts. “Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2016
Two researchers have analyzed images Exif metadata included in the photos used by crooks to advertise their products on black marketplaces in the dark web. Darknets are a privileged environment for crooks that intend to develop a prolific business protecting their anonymity, anyway, there are several aspects that they need to consider in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
A few members of the community are calling for a ‘Tor general strike’ to protest against some decisions taken recently by the core members. Last month, the Tor Project announced that an internal investigation had confirmed the allegations of sexual misconduct against the notorious member Jacob Appelbaum. The allegations divided the internet privacy community, as a result of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2016
The German Government announced last week the creation of a new cyber security unit named ZITiS to tackle terrorists online in a wake of terror attacks. The fear of a terror attack is pushing every government and international law enforcement agencies in an additional effort to tackle the activity of the ISIS radical group online. The German government has announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2016
Experts from Heimdal security firm discovered a new crimeware kit, the Scylex malware kit, that aims to provide Zeus-grade Capabilities. Security experts from the Heimdal security firm have discovered a new DIY financial crime kit offered for sale on a notorious malicious hacker forum on the dark web called Lampeduza. The new crime kit, dubbed Scylex malware kit, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2016
A team researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) is crawling the Darkweb searching for zero-days for Proactive Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Can finding zero-day vulnerabilities be as easy as crawling the Darkweb? Security researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) think so and they’re already seeing some success. In a paper titled, “Darknet and Deepnet Mining for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2016
The notorious hacker Peace is advertising 200 Million alleged Yahoo accounts on Dark Web, and the company is aware of the sale. Do you remember the notorious hacker Peace? He is the hacker that offered for sale the dumps of LinkedIn and MySpace, and now he has once again a surprise for the security experts. Peace is advertising […]
