Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculatio...

Dark Web Monitoring

Unveiling Dark Web Surveillance: Bolstering Internet Safety Journey with us into the unchartered territories of the internet, where a masked sector called the Dark Net thrives. This secret hub is notorious for harboring unlawful actions ranging from infringed identity to stolen data, bringing for...

What is the dark web?

Most users interact with the internet through the web, and many of the threat actors we write about operate on the "dark web." Broadly speaking, the dark web is a small portion of the "deep web," where the deep web represents most of the Web. We know, its confusing -- lets walk through an example...

Understanding Malware-as-a-Service

Money is the root of all evil, including cybercrime. Thus, it was inevitable that malware creators would one day begin not only to distribute malicious programs themselves, but also to sell them to less technically proficient attackers, thereby lowering the threshold for entering the cybercrimina...

How to Set Up a Threat Hunting and Threat Intelligence Program

Threat hunting is an essential component of your cybersecurity strategy. Whether you're getting started or in an advanced state, this article will help you ramp up your threat intelligence program. What is Threat Hunting? The cybersecurity industry is shifting from a reactive to a proactive...

deepweblinks.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3301620

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Darkdump2 - Search The Deep Web Straight From Your Terminal

About Darkdump Recent Notice - 12/27/22 Darkdump is a simple script written in Python3.11 in which it allows users to enter a search term query in the command line and darkdump will pull all the deep web sites relating to that query. Darkdump2.0 is here, enjoy! Installation 1. git clone...

Examining New DawDropper Banking Dropper and DaaS on the Dark Web

In this blog post, we discuss the technical details of a new banking dropper that we have dubbed DawDropper, give a brief history of banking trojans released in early 2022 that use malicious droppers, and elaborate on cybercriminal activities related to DaaS in the deep web...

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...

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...

Darkdump - Search The Deep Web Straight From Your Terminal

Darkdump is a simple script written in Python3.9 in which it allows users to enter a search term query in the command line and darkdump will pull all the deep web sites relating to that query. Darkdump wraps up the darksearch.io API. Installation 1. git clone https://github.com/josh0xA/darkdump 2...

Neo-Nazi SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists

Nearly three dozen journalists at a broad range of major publications have been targeted by a far-right group that maintains a Deep Web database listing the personal information of people who threaten their views. This group specializes in encouraging others to harass those targeted by their ire,...

DDoS attacks in Q4 2017

News overview In terms of news about DDoS attacks, the last quarter of 2017 was livelier than the previous one. Some major botnets were discovered and destroyed. For instance, early December saw the FBI, Microsoft, and Europol team up to knock out the Andromeda botnet, in operation since 2011. In...

What Can The Dark Web Teach Us About Enterprise Security?

Ever since the law enforcement takedown of the Silk Road underground marketplace in 2013, there has been increasing interest in the depth and breadth of the Deep Web. This portion of the internet has been largely shrouded from the public eye, representing an environment in which hackers can...

Open Sources Research Framework: OSRFramework

Open Sources Research Framework OSRFramework is a GNU AGPLv3+ set of libraries developed by i3visio to perform Open Source Intelligence tasks. They include references to a bunch of different applications related to username checking, DNS lookups, information leaks research, deep web search, regul...

ONIOFF - Onion URL Inspector

A simple tool - written in pure python - for inspecting Deep Web URLs or onions. Compatible with Python 2.6 & 2.7. Author: Nikolaos Kamarinakis nikolaskama.me Installation You can download ONIOFF by cloning the Git Repo and simply installing its requirements: $ git clone...

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...

How Spies Could Unmask Tor Users without Cracking Encryption

The Onion Router Tor is weeping Badly! Yes, Tor browser is in danger of being caught once again by the people commonly known as "Spies," who's one and only intention is to intrude into others’ network and gather information. A team of security researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

Author Behind Ransomware Tox Calls it Quits, Sells Platform

Earlier this week, when the author behind the crypto-ransomware Locker apologized and released decryption keys for his victims, it seemed like a change of heart, uncharacteristic for an attacker. Now another ransomware creator has also decided to cut his losses and get out of the game – but not...

Onion.City — Search Engine for Deep Web that Works From Normal Web Browser

There is an entire section of the Internet that you probably don’t see on daily basis, it’s called the "Darknet" or "Deep Web", where all browsing is done anonymously. About a week ago, we reported about the 'Memex' Deep Web Search Engine, a Defense Advance Research Projects Agency DARPA project ...