Freedom Hosting operator gets 27 years for hosting Dark Web child abuse sites

The wheels of justice have turned, if perhaps a bit slower than you may have expected. A Dublin resident, Eric Eoin Marques, has been sentenced to 27 years in federal prison. The reason is the frankly terrifying tally of child sexual abuse material CSAM he helped to distribute. Eoin helped to mak...

Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content

By Waqas The culprit ran a hosting firm on the dark web which was home to millions of images and videos showing explicit content against children. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Owner of dark web Freedom hosting pleads guilty to host child abuse content...

Alleged Child Porn Lord Faces US Extradition

In 2013, the FBI exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to seize control over a Dark Web network of child pornography sites. The alleged owner of that ring - 33-year-old Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques - was arrested in Ireland later that year on a U.S. warrant and has been in...

Anonymous Hacker took down over 10,000 Dark Web Sites; Leaked User Database

Dark Web is right now going through a very rough time. Just two days ago, a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous broke into the servers of Freedom Hosting II and took down more than 10,000 Tor-based .onion dark websites with an alarming announcement to its visitors, which said: "Hello, Freedom...

FBI seized entire database of TorMail service; using it to catch Criminals

Using Tormail Email service for being Anonymous online while conversations and mail exchange?? There is a very disappointing news for all current and past users, US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has a complete copy of Tormail server and they are using it to catch the Criminals & Hackers...

NSA using Browser Cookies to track Tor Users

Yesterday a new classified NSA document was leaked by Edward Snowden - titled 'Tor Stinks' in which ideas were being kicked around for identifying Tor users or degrading the user experience to dissuade people from using the Tor browser. The NSA had a very hard time while tracking down all Tor...

FBI compromised Tor hidden service to bust largest Child Pornography Ring

A few days before the servers of the largest provider of Ultra Anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors who were using the Tor service to hide their identity online. The javascript code exploited a security vulnerability in the open-source version of...

Tor Users Hit With Firefox Exploit, But No Large Compromise of Network Seen

The vulnerability in Firefox that was being used to exploit some users of Tor in recent days was fixed in a previous Firefox release and the exploit in circulation only works against people running Firefox 17. Over the weekend, word spread that the exploit was in the wild and that the Tor network...

Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI to shutdown Child porn on Tor Network hosting; Tor Mail Compromised

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 was used by...

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites

Anonymous Hackers Take Down 40 Child Porn Websites Anonymous has taken down more than 40 darknet-based child porn websites over the last week. Details of some of the hacks have been released via pastebin OpDarknet, including personal details 1500 users of a site named 'Lolita City,' and DDoS tool...