Feds Dismantle Dark Web Credentials Market

Law-enforcement agencies across the world have taken aim at Dark Web denizens this week, with the takedown of a credentials marketplace as well as continued action against former users of the Webstresser.org DDoS-for-hire site. An international law-enforcement operation has dismantled the xDedic...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – WindTail (OSX)

Summary Dark Matter researcher Taha Karim recently presented his research on the APT group WindShift at Hack in the Box Singapore. This group primarily focuses on highly targeted campaigns directed toward Middle Eastern government and commercial entities. One of the custom macOS backdoors employe...

Dark Overlord hackers publish first batch of “secret” 9/11 files

By Waqas The Dark Overlord hackers have fulfilled their promise and published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 documents in a 70 megabytes file related to the 9/11 attacks. Initially, the group had vowed to publish 10GB of data on Twitter account or on a Dark Web form called “KickAss.”...

Dark Overlord hackers vow to leak 9/11 related data stolen from law firm

By Waqas On Monday when the whole world was gearing up to celebrate New Year's Eve hackers from The Dark Overlord group made astonishing claims that they stole a trove of data from Hiscox Syndicates Ltd, a law firm responsible for handling insurance files related to 9/11 terrorist attacks. This w...

Threatlist: Dark Web Markets See an Evolution in Q3

In the wake of Hansa and AlphaBay being dismantled on the Dark Web, Dream Markets and Wall Street Market have become the largest marketplaces in the criminal underground, according to Q3 analysis from McAfee. Meanwhile, vulnerabilities and stolen credentials continue to dominate the cybercriminal...

Patched Click2Gov Flaw Still Afflicting Local Govs

A vulnerability in a popular municipality payment software, Click2Gov, has left hundreds of thousands of civilian payment cards compromised – and the hacks are ongoing, a new report found. Continual breaches of the vulnerable software have led to the compromise of at least 294,929 payment cards...

235 members of dark web money counterfeiting gang busted

By Waqas The Dark Web has become a thriving hub of all sorts of criminal activities from selling illegal drugs to the distribution of ransomware and running child porn platforms. To tackle the situation, a wide-scale crackdown was launched by European law enforcement agencies throughout Europe...

L0rdix malware on dark web steals data, mines crypto & enslaves PCs as botnet

By Waqas There’s a new hacking tool circulating in the underground Dark Web forums that let cybercriminals target Microsoft Windows computers. It has become the newest universal go-to tool to attack a Windows machine because it presents an utterly lethal combination of data stealing, cryptomining...

6500 sites down after hackers wipe out database of dark web hosting firm

By Waqas Daniel's Hosting, one of the largest hosting service providers on Dark Web has come under a massive cyber attack forcing its website along with over 6,500 websites hosted on its server to go offline but the damage is way more than that. The hosting administrator, a German software...

Data from “almost every Pakistani Bank” stolen & sold on the dark web

By Waqas Pakistani banks have debuted on the Dark Web with almost all of the country’s banks becoming victims of a devastating data hack. It is undoubtedly the biggest ever hacking campaign launched against banks in Pakistan. It is estimated that hackers have stolen financial data of more than...

Newsmaker Interview: Tom Kellermann on Hacking the Midterm Elections

Midterm elections are being held across the country Tuesday which means millions will be paying close attention to wins and losses. But, for cybersecurity experts, such as Tom Kellermann, the focus will be on voting irregularities. Tom Kellermann Kellermann is chief cybersecurity officer for Carb...

Facebook Blames Malicious Extensions in Breach of 81K Private Messages

Hackers have published what they claim are private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts – and they say the trove contains a fraction of the details they have from a larger cadre of 120 million accounts. In an English-language Dark Web advertisement now taken down, the perpetrators...

New AI system DARKMENTION will detect upcoming cyberattacks from dark web

By Waqas Cybersecurity is one of the primary concerns of internet users nowadays, which includes commercial and governmental organizations as well. Recent, large-scale data breaches at Gmail, Equifax, Facebook, Google+ Cathay Pacific Airways, and Yahoo, etc., have made it clear that the bigger th...

Threat Intelligence, the Dark Web and Information sharing: Supporting improved protection

There are numerous different elements and obstacles that contribute to the challenges of data protection in the current threat environment. However, a leading issue is ensuring protection against the latest, emerging attack styles and breach strategies. After all, how can an organization ensure t...

Carbon Black Report: Destructive Cyberattacks Increase Ahead of 2018 Midterm Elections

A trade war with China. A fragile agreement with North Korea. A growing fear of Russian hackers. Ahead of the 2018 U.S. midterm congressional elections, geopolitical conflict continues to play out in cyberspace. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, politically motivate...

A week in security (October 22 – 28)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at some new Mac malware, gave you a roundup of 2018 exploit kits, and dispensed some advice on sextortion scams. We also looked at the Cathay Pacific breach, groaned at the revival of an old browser trick, and explained how voting machines and...

dark-com.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-689071 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| dark-com.de Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden unti...

Up to 35 Million 2018 Voter Records For Sale on Hacking Forum

Up to 35 million voter records have been found up for sale on a popular hacking forum from 19 states, researchers discovered. Researchers at Anomali Labs and Intel 471 on Monday said that they discovered Dark Web communications offering a large quantity of voter databases for sale – including...

Dark web kingpin visiting US for beard competition gets 20 years in prison

By Waqas Dream Market Drug Vendor arrived in the US to participate in a beard competition in Texas. A Dark Web drug dealer has received 240 months or 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the crimes of laundering money and possessing controlled substances with the intention of distributin...

French Dark-Web Drug Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in US Prison

A dark web drugs kingpin who was arrested last year when he arrived in the United States to compete in the World Beard and Mustache Championships has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola sentenced 36-year-old French national Gal Vallerius, aka...