Judge Tosses Evidence Gathered by FBI's Tor Exploit

The FBI’s refusal to share details about a network investigative technique it used to gather evidence against a Vancouver teacher charged with possession of child pornography has forced a federal judge’s hand to exclude the evidence from trial. The NIT used by the FBI to hack the Playpen website ...

Hacker is Selling 272 Million Email Passwords for Just $1

A massive database of 272 million emails and passwords for popular email services, including Gmail, Microsoft, and Yahoo, are being offered for sale on the Dark Web for less than $1, media reports. An anonymous Russian hacker, who goes by the moniker "the Collector," was first spotted by...

Onion Services Security Scan: OnionScan

OnionScan is a free and open source tool for investigating the Dark Web. For all the amazing technological innovations in the anonymity and privacy space, there is always a constant threat that has no effective technological patch – human error. Whether it is operational security leaks or softwar...

Silk Road 2.0 Dark-Web Admin Pleads Guilty

An admin of Silk Road 2, named Brian Farrell, who helped maintain the notorious dark web site by providing customer and technical support, approving and suspending vendors, and promoting staff members, has pleaded guilty and could face 8 years in prison. The 28-year-old man, who used the moniker...

Ransomware attacks on Hospitals put Patients at Risk

Just last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI issued an urgent "Flash" message to the businesses and organisations about the threat of Samsam Ransomware, but the ransomware has already wreaked havoc on some critical infrastructure. MedStar, a non-profit group that runs 10 hospitals in t...

The FBI against the judges command: declined to use the Tor browser vulnerability code-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Last month, the FBI was ordered disclosure used to attack the dark web child pornography website single visitors single full version malicious code. To make this decision of judge Robert J. Bryan, he expressed his understanding of the FBI what exactly is how to caught the accused is a very fair...

Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear: The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. Yes, a federal judge in Washington...

Deep Web Search Engines to Explore the Hidden Internet

Do you know: There is a vast section of the Internet which is hidden and not accessible through regular search engines and web browsers. This part of the Internet is known as the Deep Web, and it is about 500 times the size of the Web that we know. What is DEEP WEB? Deep Web is referred to the da...

Variety Jones, A Senior Adviser to ‪Silk Road‬ arrested in Thailand

The man accused of being "a senior advisor" and mentor of Ross Ulbricht, the convicted operator of the illegal drug marketplace Silk Road, has been arrested in Thailand and charged with conspiring to traffic drugs and money laundering. The US Department of Justice DoJ announced on Friday that Rog...

TalkTalk Hackers Demand Ransom of CEO Dido Harding

Update The U.K.’s Metropolitan Police Cyber Crime Unit this afternoon arrested a 15-year-old Northern Ireland boy in connection with the TalkTalk hack. The teen is alleged to have violated the Computer Misuse Act, a police statement said. He is being questioned at the County Antrim police station...

Ashley Madison Hackers Finally Released All the Stolen Data Online

Well, Cheaters are about to have a very Bad Night Today! Hackers who claimed to have stolen customers' data from Ashley Madison, the popular online casual sex and cheating website with a tagline "Life is short. Have an affair," recently leaked nearly 10GB of its users' personal data online. The...

Adult Friend Finder... Hacked & 3.5 Million Users' Database Leaked Online

Until now, hackers have targeted companies and websites that hold your credit card details or medical information, but now they are showing interest in your sex life instead. You heard it right. Adult Friend Finder, a casual dating website with the tagline "hookup, find sex or meet someone hot...

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...

Thousands of Hacked Uber Accounts Selling on Dark Web for $1

$US1 may be a very little amount, but it is enough to buy you a stolen Uber account and free car rides around the city. Two separate vendors on AlphaBay, a relatively new Dark Web marketplace launched in late 2014, are selling active Uber accounts with usernames and passwords for $1 each,...

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...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the 2015 Security Analyst Summit

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss their takeaways from the SAS 2015 conference, including the Equation Group APT analysis, hacking car washes, indexing the dark web and hacking home appliances. Download: digitalunderground187.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Indexing the Dark Web One Hacking Forum At A Time

CANCUN–There are only so many ways to tip-toe around some of the Internet’s darker, seedier corners. Sites offering illegal drugs, DDoS for hire and other questionable merchandise are often laden with malware, hazardous to visit, and in turn, can be hard to fully get a grip on. But according to...

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...

Silk Road Reloaded Switches from Tor to I2P Anonymous Network

Multiple successors of the original Silk Road have come and all have been taken offline in recent years, but aside from selling illegal goods and services, they all have had one thing in common – they've all relied on the Tor network. A new version of the anonymous online black market Silk Road,...

Tor Project Looking for Answers Following Operation Onymous

Officials at the Tor Project are continuing to look for answers following the takedown late last week of hundreds of Tor hidden services, including the popular black market website Silk Road 2.0. In a blog entry yesterday Tor made it clear that it wasn’t entirely sure how or why the services that...