Dark Web

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2019
Romanian duo convicted of fraud Scheme infecting 400,000 computers

Two Romanian hackers are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malicious code and stole millions of dollars from the victims. Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers, most of them in the U.S.. The malware was developed to steal credentials, financial data, personal information, then the crooks offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2019
Genesis Store black marketplace offers more than 60k+ stolen bot profiles

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that over 60,000 stolen profiles are offered for sale on an private marketplace called Genesis Store. More than 60,000 stolen profiles are offered for sale in the underground marketplace Genesis Store, it includes browser fingerprints, web site user logins and passwords, cookies, and credit card information. The seller is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2019
Operation SaboTor – Police arrested 61 vendors and buyers in the dark web

Operation SaboTor – A coordinated operation conducted by law enforcement agencies from Europe, Canada, and the United States targeted vendors and buyers of illegal goods on dark web marketplaces.  The international operations, dubbed operation SaboTor, involved 17 countries, notably Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Portugal. “During the course of this operation, international law enforcement agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2019
gnosticplayers offers 26 Million new accounts for sale on the Dark Web

The hacker gnosticplayers is offering the fourth batch of millions of records stolen from 6 new websites for sale on the dark web. Gnosticplayers is back with the fourth round of hacked accounts offered for sale on the dark web. In February, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
German legislative body wants to tighten penalties against black marketplace operators

Germany’s states have decided to criminalize black marketplace operators with the introduction of specific federal legislation. Germany’s states have voted to punish operators of dark web platforms with the introduction of federal legislation. The legislation aims at criminalizing every operator behind darkweb marketplaces where illegal activities take place. This Friday, therefore, the German Federal Council […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
GlitchPOS PoS Malware appears in the cybercrime underground

A new piece of PoS malware appeared in the threat landscape, the malicious code dubbed GlitchPOS has been found on a crimeware forum. The GlitchPOS malware is able to steal credit card numbers (Track1 and Track2) from the memory of the infected system, it uses a regular expression to perform this task. The malicious code […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2019
Gnosticplayers round 3 – 92 Million fresh accounts from 8 unreported security breaches available for sale

Gnosticplayers hacker is offering in a third round a new set of databases containing millions of hacked accounts from unreported data breaches. Last week, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in two rounds. The experts offered for sale the huge trove of data for […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web

A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2019
620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. The advertising for the sale of the huge trove […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2019
Authorities shut down XDEDIC marketplace in an international operation

A  joint operation conducted by law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe allowed seizing the xDedic marketplace. Law enforcement agencies in the US and Europe announced the seizure of the popular xDedic marketplace, an underground market offering for sale access to compromised systems and personally identifiable information. “On 24 January, the U.S. Prosecutor’s […]