Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2017
The AlphaBay Market went down Tuesday night without any explanation, many users that have purchased products on the marketplace fear the Exit-Scam. The news is shocking, the AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web black markets is down. We have analyzed many times the popular black market where it was possible to buy any kind of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2017
The FBI hacked the system of a dark web user who tried to purchase a mail bomb from an undercover investigator in the US. According to a plea agreement, filed on April 28, 2017, Clinton Scott Bass of Georgia (US) tried in a first time to purchase a car bomb. The man, who was using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2017
Over the weekend, security experts discovered a new Ransomware-as-a-Service dubbed Shifr RaaS that allows creating a ransomware compiling 3 form fields. Ransomware represents a profitable business for crooks, it is normal that the offer of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) will continue its success in the cyber criminal ecosystem. Over the weekend, several security experts discovered a new Ransomware-as-a-Service website […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2017
The UK Parliament has suffered the biggest ever cyber attack against the email systems, it shut down external access to mitigate the threat. The UK Parliament has shut down external access to e-mail accounts on Saturday after a cyberattack. According to the authorities, the attack was “sustained and determined,” hackers launched a prolonged brute-force attack against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2017
Russians hackers are offering for sale on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats. According to The Times, Russians hackers are selling on the dark web login credentials of thousands of top UK politicians, top officials, and diplomats. Journalists at the British newspaper have found two huge […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2017
Reporters for the online service “Bleeping Computer” have uncovered a new threat to Apple being offered on the dark web, it is the MACSPY RAT. Reporters for the online service “Bleeping Computer” have uncovered a new threat to Apple being offered on the dark web. Thru their efforts the researchers for AlienVault were able to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2017
Security researchers at Trend Micro used Tor honeypots to conduct a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, Security experts at Trend Micro have conducted a six-months study of the attack landscape of the Dark Web, researchers operated a honeypot setup simulating several underground services on the Dark Web in order to analyze […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2017
The Tor Project Team has announced the release of Tor Browser 7.0, it comes with multiprocess mode, content sandbox, and Unix domain sockets. The Tor Project has released the stable release of Tor Browser 7.0 that includes many security features and according to the development team, it also improved performance. The Tor network implements an anonymous communication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2017
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2017
According to Israeli threat intelligence firm Sixgill, certifications and fake diplomas are very cheap and easy to buy in the dark web. It is quite easy to buy in dark web marketplaces any kind of illegal product and service, including fake certifications and diplomas. According to Israeli threat intelligence firm Sixgill, certifications and degrees are very cheap and it is […]
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