Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Uncovers Significant Evolution of Popular Cryptomining Campaign Affecting More than 500,000 Computers

Carbon Black’s CB Threat Analysis Unit TAU has uncovered a secondary component in a well-known cryptomining campaign. The malware has been enhanced to also steal system access information for possible sale on the dark web. Combined together, this attack is being classified as “Access Mining.” Thi...

Smominru Cryptominer Scrapes Credentials for Half-Million Machines

A commodity cryptomining botnet campaign that has infected a half-million computers is now tapping a lucrative secondary moneymaking opportunity in selling access to victim machines, according to researchers. An analysis of the known Smominru cryptomining campaign, which uses a modified version o...

Everything you need to know about ATM attacks and fraud: part 2

This is the second and final installment of our two-part series on automated teller machine ATM attacks and fraud. In part 1, we identified the reasons why ATMs are vulnerable—from inherent weaknesses of its frame to its software—and delved deep into two of the four kinds of attacks against them:...

Mobile Menace Monday: Dark Android Q rises

Android Q, the upcoming 10th major release of the Android mobile operating system, was developed by Google with three major themes in mind: innovation, security, and privacy. Today, we are going to focus mostly on security and privacy, although there are still many potential changes and updates o...

Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges

An Irish national has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators who helped run now-defunct dark web marketplace "Silk Road." Gary Davis, 31, of Wicklow, Ireland, was known as 'Libertas' on the Silk Road website, then-largest underground...

DarkScrape - OSINT Tool For Scraping Dark Websites

OSINT Tool to find Media Links in Tor Sites. Tested On Kali Linux 2019.2 Ubuntu 18.04 Nethunter Arc Linux Installation git clone https://github.com/itsmehacker/DarkScrape.git pip3 install -r requirements.txt Features Download Media Scrape From Single Url Scraping From Files Txt Csv Excel Inspired...

Friday Squid Blogging: Fantastic Video of a Juvenile Giant Squid

It's amazing: Then, about 20 hours into the recording from the Medusa's fifth deployment, Dr. Robinson saw the sharp points of tentacles sneaking into the camera's view. "My heart felt like exploding," he said on Thursday, over a shaky phone connection from the ship's bridge. At first, the animal...

A Spate of University Breaches Highlight Email Threats in Higher Ed

Oregon State University announced Friday that hackers potentially made off with 636 student records and family records of students containing personally identifiable information PII, after a successful email attack in early May. This comes on the heels of email-based breaches at Graceland...

Targeted Espionage-as-a-Service Takes Hold on the Dark Web

The cybercrime underground has become a service-driven, on-demand economy, including making available targeted corporate espionage services. According to an analysis, about 40 percent of Dark Web merchants offer spearphishing-as-a-service and targeted hacking services, aimed at infiltrating Fortu...

Healthcare Cyber Heists in 2019

Healthcare organizations are increasingly being targeted by cyberattacks due to the gold mine of personal data they possess. The potential, real-world effect these attacks can have is substantial. See the WannaCry and NotPetya ransomware attacks of 2017. Click here to download the full report fro...

What to do if your email is found on the Dark Web

By Owais Sultan If your email is on the dark web it is quite possible that its password is leaked as well either in plain text or encrypted with some hash format. The dark web is 99% of the Internet we can’t access from the browsers we’ve got. Regularly used by hackers and black hats, any...

Feds Dismantled the Dark-Web Drug Trade—but It's Already Rebuilding

After recent high-profile dark-web drug market takedowns, new vendors are already filling the void...

DeepDotWeb, Wall St and Valhalla markets seized by authorities

By Uzair Amir Arrests have been made in Israel, Europe, Brazil, and the United States. The popular dark web news and index website DeepDotWeb DDW has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. Those visiting the website can see a message left by the FBI on its homepage stating that...

A week in security (April 29 – May 5)

Last week on Labs we discussed the possible exit scam of dark net market Wall Street Market, how the Electrum DDoS botnet reaches 152,000 infected hosts, we looked at the sophisticated threats plague ailing healthcare industry, a mysterious database that exposed personal information of 80 million...

Europol Shuts Down Two Major Illegal 'Dark Web' Trading Platforms

Europol announced the shut down of two prolific dark web marketplaces—Wall Street Market and Silkkitie also known as Valhalla—in simultaneous global operations against underground websites for trading drugs, stolen credit card numbers, malicious software, and other illegal goods. Police in wester...

Europol Shuts Down Two Major Illegal 'Dark Web' Trading Platforms

Europol announced the shut down of two prolific dark web marketplaces—Wall Street Market and Silkkitie also known as Valhalla—in simultaneous global operations against underground websites for trading drugs, stolen credit card numbers, malicious software, and other illegal goods. Police in wester...

Feds Bust Up Dark Web Hub Wall Street Market

Federal investigators in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands announced today the arrest and charging of three German nationals and a Brazilian man as the alleged masterminds behind the Wall Street Market WSM, one of the world's largest dark web bazaars that allowed vendors to sell...

Wall Street Market reported to have exit scammed

Around April 20, many users reported that Wall Street Market, a broadly known dark net market, had executed an exit scam, and that any pending orders were unlikely to be completed. Scamming with enterprises involving Bitcoin is not unheard of, and dark net markets with centralized escrow are...

‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan...

Wall Street market exit scam? Admins steal $30 million worth of crypto

By Uzair Amir Wall Street market vendors on the dark web are urging others not to deposit their coins. As you may know, a majority of the dark web users are migrating to the Wall Street marketplace after the closure of the Dream market. Initially, this migration was successful but now a significa...