Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2015
Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2015
Dark Web Intelligence could help law enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather information on potential attacks. Which are the risks? The increased number of cyber attacks against government entities and the hypothesis that the U.S. government should take an offensive strike against hackers who hit the countries raised the discussion on the problem of the attribution. Prevention, mitigation and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Agora black marketplace announced Tuesday evening that it will go temporary offline fearing the exploitation of the Tor flaws recently discovered. Operators of principal black markets are concerned about the real level of anonymity offered by the Tor network after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities affecting the anonymizing system. The administrators of the Agora black market, one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanks to the model of sale known as malware-as-a-service that offers off-the-shelf malware for rent or sale. Recently malware authors started to offer also Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2015
A Study that will be presented at the USENIX Security Symposium shows that principal Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day. We all remind the operation Onymous and the seizure of several black markets operated by law enforcement last year, despite the enormous effort spent every day by the authorities the illicit activities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2015
Founder of the ahmia.fi project reported that someone is cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites and is re-writing some of the content. The “ahmia.fi” project census Dark Web websites, aka hidden services, by providing search engine functionalities by indexing the content present on the Tor network. Nurmi noticed an anomalous number of clones of hundreds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2015
Security experts at Trend Micro published a report on the Deep Web and related illegal activities that exploit the darknets it contains. Experts at TrendMicro published an interesting report on the Deep Web focusing their analysis on the services and products available in the dark part of the internet that is not indexed by the principal search […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2015
Users of the popular Agora Dark Market have been targeted by unknown crooks who sent them malicious java script exploit that tries to steal their Bitcoin. Users of the popular Agora Marketplace have been targeted by unknown crooks who sent them malicious messages trough their PM system. The messages contain a malicious java script exploit that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2015
The owner of the Tox ransomware builder is offering for sale the platform worried by its popularity. He confirmed that he will pay ransoms to his customers. The owner of the famous Tox ransomware has decided that it was time to sell the platform, this after all popularity reached by its platform. The Tox platform […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
Security experts developed their PunkSPIDER, a Tor crawler, that already scanned more than 7000 domains and discovered numerous vulnerabilities. We have discussed several times about the Tor anonymizer network and the way it is exploited by criminal crews to sell any kind of illegal product and service. Last week, an automated scanner dubbed PunkSPIDER was launched in the […]
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