Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2017
In a leaflet distributed by the UK authorities, the police tell citizens to be vigilant on anyone using the darkweb. The widespread of terrorism in Europe has been very severe recently. As a way of effectively dealing with In a wake of recent terror attacks, London authorities are conducting various initiatives to fight the threat. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2017
Nearly 17 million Zomato usernames and hashed passwords have been stolen by hackers., the company suspects it is an insider’s job. Nearly 17 million Zomato usernames and hashed passwords have been stolen by hackers. Zomato is the Indian largest online restaurant guide, the company confirmed data breach announcing that hackers have stolen accounts details of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2017
Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in an operation that resulted in the seizure of the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace. Another success of the European police, last week Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in the arrest of a Slovak national believed to operate the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace dealing in drugs and arms. “Bloomsfield started its marketplace […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2017
The independent malware research @Xylit0l discovered the Satan ransomware, a malware belonging to the Gen:Trojan.Heur2.FU family. Yesterday the independent malware research @Xylit0l discovered the Satan ransomware, a malware belonging to the Gen:Trojan.Heur2.FU family. Satan is provided as a RaaS (Ransomware-as-a-Service). New #RaaS https://t.co/wbqn2GOuvo pic.twitter.com/skTTNCDbod — Xylitol (@Xylit0l) January 18, 2017 The Satan ransomware used RSA-2048 […]
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 20, 2016
The Australian police had targeted the Love Zone child porn site, ran it for a while and managed to gain access at least to 30 US IPs. Apart from FBI, there are other organizations that have tried to identify the participants of child porn websites, so that they could get their hands on them and […]
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
May 18, 2016
A hacker who goes by the name “Peace,” is offering 117 million LinkedIn credentials for 5 bitcoin, the precious data come from the 2012 hack. According to Motherboard, a hacker who goes by the name “Peace,” is offering personal details of 117 million LinkedIn users for 5 bitcoin (around $2,200). The hacker is offering the data in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2016
A coordinated operation of law enforcement agencies in 7 countries raided operators of darknets trading in illegal products and services. A joint effort of law enforcement agencies in seven European countries (Germany, Bosnia, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Russia) allowed authorities to identify and arrest operators of darknet online platforms trading in illegal products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2015
Which are the main events observed in the darkweb during the 2015 and what to expect in the next 12 months? The DarkWeb is a set of publicly accessible content that are hosted on websites whose IP address is hidden, but to which anyone can access it as long as it knows the address. The […]
