Top 5 Malware Threats to Prepare Against in 2025

2024 had its fair share of high-profile cyber attacks, with companies as big as Dell and TicketMaster falling victim to data breaches and other infrastructure compromises. In 2025, this trend will continue. So, to be prepared for any kind of malware attack, every organization needs to know its...

Researchers Uncover Dark Web Operation Entirely Focused on KYC Bypass

iProov uncovers a major Dark Web operation selling stolen identities with matching biometrics, posing a serious threat to KYC verification systems...

LockBit Developer Rostislav Panev Charged for Billions in Global Ransomware Damages

A dual Russian and Israeli national has been charged in the United States for allegedly being the developer of the now-defunct LockBit ransomware-as-a-service RaaS operation since its inception in or around 2019 through at least February 2024. Rostislav Panev , 51, was arrested in Israel earlier...

Drug Dealers Have Moved on to Social Media

The marketing of illegal drugs on open platforms is “gaining prominence,” authorities note, while the number of drug transactions on the dark web has decreased in recent years...

Dark web threats and dark market predictions for 2025

Review of last year's predictions The number of services providing AV evasion for malware cryptors will increase We continuously monitor underground markets for the emergence of new "cryptors," which are tools specifically designed to obfuscate the code within malware samples. The primary purpose...

US Officials Recommend Encryption Apps Amid Chinese Telecom Hacking

Plus: Russian spies keep hijacking other hackers’ infrastructure, Hydra dark web market admin gets life sentence in Russia, and more of the week’s top security news...

Dark Web Hydra Market Mastermind Sentenced to Life by Russia

Stanislav Moiseyev, the organizer of the notorious Hydra Market, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Moscow court. Learn about the massive scale of this dark web marketplace and the international efforts to dismantle it...

Bitcoin Fog Operator Gets 12.5 Years for Longest-Running Bitcoin Laundering

Bitcoin Fog operator sentenced to 12.5 years for laundering $400M in crypto. The dark web's longest-running mixer processed…...

Dark Web Anti-Bot Services Let Phishers Bypass Google’s Red Page

Anti-bot services on the dark web allow phishers to bypass Google's Red Page warnings, evading detection and making…...

Stealer here, stealer there, stealers everywhere!

Introduction Information stealers, which are used to collect credentials to then sell them on the dark web or use in subsequent cyberattacks, are actively distributed by cybercriminals. Some of them are available through a monthly subscription model, thus attracting novice cybercriminals. Accordi...

Authorities Seize Dark Web Marketplaces Sipulitie and Tsätti

Finnish Customs and Swedish Police, with Bitdefender's support, shut down dark web marketplaces Sipulitie and Tsätti. These platforms…...

Whispers from the Dark Web Cave. Cyberthreats in the Middle East

The Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence team analyzed cybersecurity threats coming from dark web cybercriminals who targeted businesses and governments in the Middle East in H1 2024. Our research highlights the most severe and pervasive threats, and identifies potential risks and consequence...

Bohemia and Cannabia Dark Web Markets Taken Down After Joint Police Operation

The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world's largest and longest-running dark web market for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. The takedown is the result of a collaborative investigation with Ireland, the United Kingdom...

Gamers Tricked Into Downloading Lua-Based Malware via Fake Cheating Script Engines

Users searching for game cheats are being tricked into downloading a Lua-based malware that is capable of establishing persistence on infected systems and delivering additional payloads. "These attacks capitalize on the popularity of Lua gaming engine supplements within the student gamer...

Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext, Meta fined

Ireland’s privacy watchdog Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta €91M $101M after the discovery in 2019 that Meta had stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plaintext. The DPC ruled that Meta was in violation of GDPR on several occasions related to this breach. It determin...

Dark Web Sales Fuel 32% Increase in Global Healthcare Cyberattacks

Healthcare organizations face a 32% surge in cyberattacks, with sensitive patient data being sold on the Dark Web.…...

Police Broke Tor Anonymity to Arrest Dark Web Users in Major CSAM Bust

German authorities dismantled Boystown, a notorious Dark Web platform for CSAM, by deanonymizing Tor users in 2021. This…...

Top 3 Threat Report Insights for Q2 2024

Cato CTRL Cyber Threats Research Lab has released its Q2 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report. The report highlights critical findings based on the analysis of a staggering 1.38 trillion network flows from more than 2,500 of Cato's global customers, between April and June 2024. Key Insights from the...

FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals

Two men have been indicted in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in managing a dark web marketplace called WWH Club that specializes in the sale of sensitive personal and financial information. Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakhstan national, and Pavel Kublitskii, a 37-year-old Russian...

City of Columbus tries to silence security researcher

The City of Columbus, Ohio is suing a security researcher for sharing stolen data. All the complaint will accomplish, we imagine, is spotlight the ignorance of certain city officials in handling a common security matter. What happened is that the City of Columbus was attacked by a ransomware grou...