New Spam Campaign Pushing CTB-Locker Ransomware

A new run of spam messages this week has been spotted dropping CTB-Locker ransomware. CTB-Locker, also known as Critroni, is a fairly new piece of crypto ransomware that encrypts hard drives and demands a ransom paid in Bitcoin to the attackers in exchange for the decryption key. Two days ago,...

SendGrid Email Delivery Service Hack

SendGrid, which sells a cloud-based email delivery service, has admitted that the extent of a hack disclosed three weeks ago was much more serious than originally reported. The company said an employee account was compromised and used to access other systems that contained customer and employee...

New Dark Web Marketplace Offers Zero-Day Exploits to Hackers

Hackers have sold secrets of zero-day exploits in the underground Dark Web marketplace such as the Silk Road and its various successors for years, and now a new deep web marketplace has appeared that offers anonymity protection to its sellers. A new Dark Web market, called "TheRealDeal," has open...

Ransomware Teslacrypt Still Targeting Gamers

Teslacrypt, the fairly new strain of ransomware that’s been targeting gamers, is continuing to make the rounds online. Researchers have spotted exploit kits like Sweet Orange and Angler dropping the malware on machines over the past few months. This week, Brad Duncan, a handler over at the SANS...

CoinVault Ransomware Decryption Tool Released

Are you one of those Windows users who have found themselves as victims of the CoinVault Ransomware? If Yes, then we have a Good news for you: Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now decrypt their files encrypted by malware using a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab. With the Help of The Nationa...

Sheep Marketplace Owner Arrested While Trying to Buy Luxury Home

Thomas Jiřikovský, an alleged Owner of one of the most popular Darknet website ‘Sheep Marketplace,’ has been arrested after laundering around $40 Million, making it one of the biggest exit scams in Darknet history. After the arrest of Silk Road owner 'Ross Ulbricht' in 2013 -- Sheep Marketplace...

Deep Web Drug Market Disappeared suddenly Overnight, $12 Million in Bitcoin Missing

Evolution -- The largest Deep Web drugs marketplace, disappeared suddenly overnight from the Internet. But unlike Silk Road, there is no indication that the law enforcement took down the Evolution marketplace. The Darknet’s most popular markets for drugs and bespoke carjacking services is...

CryptoLocker Variant Coming After Gamers

Gamers may soon be feeling the pain of crypto-ransomware. A variant of CryptoLocker is in the wild that goes after data files associated with 20 different online games, locking downloadable content in an attempt to target younger computer users. Researchers at Bromium today said an unnamed...

SecureRandom vulnerability details（CVE-2 0 1 3-7 3 7 2-the vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×0 0 vulnerability overview Android 4.4 previous versions of the Java cryptographic architectureJCAusing Apache Harmony 6. 0M3 and the previous version of the SecureRandom implementation there is a security vulnerability, specifically located in the...

BEWARE! μTorrent Silently Installing Bitcoin Mining Software

If you have recently installed or updated the popular BitTorrent client μTorrent 3.4.2 Build 28913 on your computer, then you read this warning post right now. Users of the μTorrent file-sharing service are complaining that the latest update of software used for torrent downloading is silently...

Tails 1.3 Released, Introduces 'Electrum Bitcoin Wallet'

A new Tails 1.3 has been released with support to a secure Bitcoin wallet. Tails, also known as the 'Amnesic Incognito Live System', is a free security-focused Debian-based Linux distribution, specially designed and optimized to preserve users' anonymity and privacy. Tails operating system came t...

Ransomware Looming As Major Long-Term Threat

On May 30, 2014, law enforcement officials from the FBI and Europol seized a series of servers that were being used to help operate the GameOver Zeus botnet, an especially pernicious and troublesome piece of malware. The authorities also began an international manhunt for a Russian man they said...

Tails 1.3 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

Chicago Police Department Pays $600 Cryptoware Ransom to Cybercriminals

Cyber criminals have started targeting government enforcement of the Ransomware in an attempt to extort money. Recently, the police department of the Midlothian Village in Illinois has paid a ransom of over $600 in Bitcoins to an unknown hacker after being hit by a popular ransomware attack. The...

‘DarkLeaks’ Black Market — Anonymously Selling Secrets for Bitcoins

An all new anonymous online underground black market website, DarkLeaks, has been introduced on the Internet where Whistleblowers, blackmailers, hackers and any individual can trade/sell sensitive and valuable data/secrets anonymously in exchange for Bitcoin payments. DarkLeaks is a decentralized...

Agora Marketplace Cross Site Request Forgery

Ladies and gentlemen Boys and girls It come to our attention that a brave warrior for the people Ross William Ulbricht was unlawfully convicted by the corporation known as the American government. This mockery of justice has not gone unnoticed. In order to protect the next generation of darknet...

$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange

The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht Convicted of All 7 Charges; Faces Life In Prison

A jury has found Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht a.k.a Dread Pirate Roberts guilty on all seven counts and faces Life In Prison for running an underground black market i.e. Silk Road. Ross Ulbricht, a San Francisco 30-year-old web developer was arrested by FBI in a sting operation in October 2013...

New Wave of CTB-Locker/Critroni Ransomware Hitting Victims

There is a new wave of attacks delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware, arriving through spam messages with a variety of lures in several different countries. CTB-Locker is one of the newer variants in the crypto ransomware family, a kind of malware that encrypts victims’ hard...

New Cryptowall 3.0 Ransomware Communicates over I2P Anonymous Network

We have seen a series of Ransomware tended to be simple with dogged determinations to extort money from victims. But with the exponential rise in the samples of Ransomware last year, we saw more subtle in design, including "Cryptolocker" that was taken down along with the "Gameover ZeuS" botnet...