What is the Dark Web? The Dark Web explained

You may have seen the Dark Web referenced in popular TV shows and have gotten the wrong idea, or if you already knew about it, you may have snorted in derision. The Dark Web is also sometimes called the Deep Web, when in fact the Dark Web is only a part of the Deep Web. Terminology Surface Web is...

Airline Credential-Theft Takes Off in Widening Campaign

A two-year-old espionage campaign against the airline industry is ongoing, with AsyncRAT and other commodity remote-access trojans RATs helping those efforts take flight. The campaign can effectively be a bird strike to the business engine, so to speak, resulting in data theft, financial fraud or...

Parts of the Dark Web “awash” with school children’s personal data

NBC News has collected and analyzed a trove of childrens personal information it discovered on the Dark Web. Even though this information may not be as useful to cybercriminals as credit card details or login credentials, the information is still out there, where we don’t want it. So what is it,...

Russian Ransomware Group REvil Back Online After 2-Month Hiatus

The operators behind the REvil ransomware-as-a-service RaaS staged a surprise return after a two-month hiatus following the widely publicized attack on technology services provider Kaseya on July 4. Two of the dark web portals, including the gang's Happy Blog data leak site and its...

Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Our data is a precious commodity and there are plenty of people who would like to get their hands on it, from spouses and marketing teams to crooks and state-sponsored spies. Because of that, tools like Tor and Virtual Private Networks VPNs are growing in popularity. But while both tools can...

Explanation of the zero-day attack

What is a zero-day vulnerability? A zero-day weakness is an obscure security weakness or programming blemish that a danger entertainer can focus with noxious code. The expression “Zero-Day” is utilized in light of the fact that the product merchant was uninformed of their product weakness, and...

The Underground Economy: Recon, Weaponization & Delivery for Account Takeovers

This is Part I of a two-part blog series taking readers inside the criminal enterprise that is account-takeover fraud. For part II, please click here. With account takeover ATO attacks on the rise, stopping threat actors in the early phases of the kill chain will help today’s defenders gain an...

Cybercriminals Selling Access to Compromised Networks: 3 Surprising Research Findings

Cybercriminals are innovative, always finding ways to adapt to new circumstances and opportunities. The proof of this can be seen in the rise of a certain variety of activity on the dark web: the sale of access to compromised networks. This type of dark web activity has existed for decades, but i...

The T-Mobile Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be

The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web...

HolesWarm Malware Exploits Unpatched Windows, Linux Servers

By leveraging more than 20 known vulnerabilities in Linux and Windows servers, the HolesWarm cryptominer malware has been able to break into more than 1,000 cloud hosts just since June. The basic cryptominer botnet has been so successful at juggling so many different known vulnerabilities between...

Dark web AlphaBay marketplace resurface after four years

By Waqas AlphaBay marketplace was originally seized in 2017 but now someone claiming to be DeSnake, the original AlphaBay co-founder has announced bringing the marketplace back to business. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark web AlphaBay marketplace resurface after four...

New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks

A new dark web service is marketing to cybercriminals who are curious to see how their various cryptocurrency holdings and transactions may be linked to known criminal activity. Dubbed "Antinalysis," the service purports to offer a glimpse into how ones payment activity might be flagged by law...

1M Stolen Credit Cards Hit Dark Web for Free

Threat actors have leaked 1 million stolen credit cards for free online as a way to promote a fairly new and increasingly popular cybercriminal site dedicated to…selling payment-card credentials. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble noticed the leak of the payment-card data during a...

What is Tor?

Tor, The Onion Router Tor The Onion Router is free software used to keep your online communications safe and secure from outside observers. It’s designed to block tracking and eavesdropping, resist fingerprinting where services tie your browser and device information to an identity, and to hide t...

Latest Top 5 Dark Web Search Engines for 2021

By Sudais Asif For those new to the dark web, it is impossible to find a website on the Tor browser or how it works and that’s where dark web search engines help. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Latest Top 5 Dark Web Search Engines for 2021...

What’s Next for REvil’s Victims?

Last week, the servers of ransomware giant REvil vanished. Many applauded as dark-web and clear-web sites used to support the backend infrastructure of REvil, aka Sodinokibi, as well as to leak victims’ data, slipped offline early Tuesday morning. Not REvil’s victims, though. They’re now stuck,...

US offers huge reward in fight against state-sponsored cybercriminals

The US Department of State has announced that its Rewards for Justice RFJ program is now offering: …up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious...

REvil Ransomware Gang Mysteriously Disappears After High-Profile Attacks

REvil, the infamous ransomware cartel behind some of the biggest cyberattacks targeting JBS and Kaseya, has mysteriously disappeared from the dark web, leading to speculations that the criminal enterprise may have been taken down. Multiple darknet and clearnet sites maintained by the Russia-linke...

Ransomware Giant REvil Disappears

All of REvil’s Dark Web sites slipped offline as of early Tuesday morning, and it’s not clear whether it’s due to the ransomware gang getting busted or whether the threat actors did it on purpose. The REvil ransomware operation, a.k.a. Sodinokibi, uses both clear web and Dark Web sites to negotia...

SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering

By Deeba Ahmed The accused is a Greek national who used AlphaBay marketplace with the alias "The Bull" on the dark web for insider trading information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SEC charges dark web user of insider trading, money laundering...