The Pirate Bay is down – Here are its alternatives & Dark Web domain

By Waqas It is a fact that The Pirate Bay has been This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay is down - Here are its alternatives & Dark Web domain...

Mylobot Botnet Emerges with Rare Level of Complexity

An unusual botnet dubbed Mylobot has emerged, percolating up from the Dark Web – and displaying a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools, especially evasion techniques. According to an analysis posted on Tuesday by Tom Nipravsky, a security...

A week in security (June 11 – June 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we discussed how to protect the online privacy of children, we gave you a spring 2018 overview of exploit kits, rounded up the ongoing discussions about the VPNFilter malware, and discussed the struggles of UK law enforcement with modern-day cybercrime. Other news...

Authorities shut down Dark Web marketplace “Black Hand”

By Carolina In a joint operation, French police, the National Directorate of Intelligence This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities shut down Dark Web marketplace "Black Hand"...

In the New “Wild West” Even “Small” Cryptocurrency Theft is Costing Billions

Over the weekend, another cryptocurrency exchange was breached. This time it was “only” $40 million” in cryptocurrency. However, as a result cryptocurrencies overall lost more than $40 billion in value following the attack. That’s not a typo - a $40 million heist cost the market more than $40...

Excerpts from Modern Bank Heists – Ransomware

Carbon Black recently published a report on the latest ransomware attack methods, and how to counteract them. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps enterprises address their endpoint security challenges, check out our weekly Cb Defense Live Demo, eve...

Carbon Black Threat Report: Cryptocurrency Gold Rush on the Dark Web

Cryptocurrencies. A decade ago, names such as Bitcoin, Dash, Etherem, and Monero were merely buzzwords. Fast forward to today, and they’ve become as recognizable as the U.S. dollar and the Euro. In many realms, these digital currencies are ushering in a new era of investing – a modern gold rush,...

10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web

By Waqas The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web...

Latin American ‘Biñeros’ Bond Over Fraudulent Purchase Scheme

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely and as often as possible. Cybercriminals in the region are making use of problems in the validation process for bank identificatio...

Man hacked 200 firms & sold data of millions of users on dark web

By Waqas Grant West, a cunning hacker who goes by the online This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man hacked 200 firms & sold data of millions of users on dark web...

Turning the Tables on Cyber Attackers

Today, Carbon Black joins the community of public companies NASDAQ: CBLK. While we are humbled and excited by this milestone, we also acknowledge there’s plenty of progress still to be made. For Carbon Black as a company and the industry as a whole, that progress starts with shifting the balance ...

Boutique Shops Offering Rewards Points Pop Up on the Dark Web

Cybercriminal interest in stolen data is not solely limited to financial or personally identifiable information. The exploitation of rewards-points programs, especially those associated with travel, is also on the radar screen for the bad guys. To cater to this interest, a series of boutique stor...

Man bought mail bomb from dark web (Alpha Bay market) to kill ex-wife

By Waqas Convict Ordered Contraband Cellphone and Mail Bomb from Dark Web This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man bought mail bomb from dark web Alpha Bay market to kill ex-wife...

Use of ‘StegWare’ Increases in Stealth Malware Attacks

SAN FRANCISCO – Researchers are warning of an uptick in the malicious use of steganography as a vehicle for delivering malware. Steganography, they say, is increasingly becoming a go-to tool for cybercriminals not just for infection, but also command-and-control, data exfiltration and as an...

Lord & Taylor & Saks customers payment cards stolen, sold on Dark Web

By Carolina Apparently, FIN7 hackers are behind the breach - The same This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lord & Taylor & Saks customers payment cards stolen, sold on Dark Web...

On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1

By Waqas Recently we reported about a massive data breach scandal that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: On Dark Web Your Facebook ID is worth $5.20 & Gmail ID just $1...

The Pirate Bay is down again but its Dark Web domain is up

By Waqas If you are wondering what happened to The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay is down again but its Dark Web domain is up...

New Web-Based Malware Distribution Channel ‘BlackTDS’ Surfaces

A new traffic distribution system for malware is being offered as a service on the Dark Web and is promoting itself as an affordable way to deploy exploit kits and malware. The traffic distribution system TDS is being called BlackTDS by the Proofpoint researchers that found it. Traffic distributi...

Life is cheap! Well it is on Dark Web where your entire identity is for sale

By Waqas Your Entire Identity Is Up for Sale at the Dark This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Life is cheap! Well it is on Dark Web where your entire identity is for sale...

A week in security (March 05 – March 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we paid homage to several women in tech, including some of our very own, on International Women's Day and shared their stories. We also looked into an adware posing as an Android app that claims to live stream the 2018 Winter Olympics, exposed scammers that go by t...