Dark Web

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2019
Hacker will compensate victims with $1.1 million Bitcoin illegally earned

UK authorities have seized over ÂŁ920,000 ($1.1 million) worth of Bitcoin from a prolific hacker, the funds will be used to compensate his victims. Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ The man was charged with multiple […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2019
Cerberus, a new banking Trojan available as malware-as-a-service in the underground

Security experts analyzed a new interesting Android banking Trojan, dubbed Cerberus, that is offered for rent by its author. A new malware-as-a-service dubbed Cerberus has emerged in the threat landscape, it is an Android RAT developed from scratch that doesn’t borrow the code from other malware. According to researchers at Threat Fabric who analyzed the threat, Cerberus […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Last week media reported the hack of StockX, the fashion and sneaker trading platform. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2019
StockX hacked, customers’ data offered for sale on the dark web

StockX, the live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, announced a data breach. StockX is a live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, the company announced that the sneaker and streetwear buying platform had been hacked. An unauthorized user was able to access customer data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2019
Prolific Dark Web dealer of drugs pleads guilty

One of the most active drug sellers on the Dark Web was charged by law authorities and ordered to forfeit over $4 million in cryptocurrency.  The US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Richard Castro (36) (aka “Chemsusa,” “Chems_usa,” and “Jagger109”) with participating in a conspiracy to distribute carfentanil, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2019
Over 23 million stolen payment card data traded on the Dark Web in H1 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019.  A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground. The report, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
Irish Silk Road admin sentenced to 78 months in federal prison

An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2019
Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with scrapers. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic. First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2019
Retro video game website Emuparadise suffered a data breach

Retro video game website Emuparadise revealed to have suffered a data breach that exposed 1.1 Million accounts back in April 2018. Emuparadise is a website that offers tons of roms, isos and retro video games, users can download and play them with an emulator or play them with the web browser. The security breach occurred in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2019
Tor Project released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android

A new version of the popular Tor Browser was released by the Tor Project, it is Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, the new version of the popular anonymizing browser. This release includes a temporary fix for a […]