AlphaBay Shut Down After Police Raid; Alleged Founder Commits Suicide in Jail

AlphaBay Market — one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods — that mysteriously went dark earlier this month without any explanation from its admins has reportedly been shut down by the international authorities. On July 4th, the dark web marketplace sudden...

AlphaBay Dark Web Market Goes Down; Users Fear Exit-Scam

AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods, suddenly disappeared overnight without any explanation from its admins, leaving its customers who have paid large sums in panic. AlphaBay, also known as "the new Silk Road," has been shut down sinc...

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal

An appellate court puts the final seal on Ulbricht's life sentence, rejecting arguments about corrupt investigators and the injustice of his harsh sentence. The post Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal appeared first on WIRED...

APT29 Domain Fronting With TOR

Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years. There has been considerable discussion about domain fronting following the release of a paper detailing these techniques...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : opus (SUSE-SU-2017:0436-1)

This update for opus fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-0381: Fixed a remote code execution vulnerability in silk/NLSFstabilize.c when playing certain media files bsc1020102 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, which allows a hacker to gain unauthorized access to the device

The vulnerability in the silk/NLSFstabilize.c function of the libopus media server in the Android operating system arises from an operation that goes beyond the buffer boundaries on the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized acce...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Or Remote Code Execution (RCE)

libopus is vulnerable to remote code execution or denial of service attacks. The vulnerability exists because silk/NLSFstabilize.c does not properly validate the negative input when computing a minimum distance...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-0381

An information disclosure vulnerability in silk/NLSFstabilize.c in libopus in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitive data without permission. Product:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0381

An information disclosure vulnerability in silk/NLSFstabilize.c in libopus in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitive data without permission. Product:...

CVE-2017-0381

An information disclosure vulnerability in silk/NLSFstabilize.c in libopus in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitive data without permission. Product:...

CVE-2017-0381

An information disclosure vulnerability in silk/NLSFstabilize.c in libopus in Mediaserver could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitive data without permission. Product:...

Silk TV - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Silk TV published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Unknown Bidder Buys 2,700 Bitcoins (worth $1.6 million) at US Government Auction

A winning anonymous bidder bought 2,700 Bitcoins worth roughly $1.6 Million in an auction held by the United States Marshals Service USMS on Monday. The US government announced at the beginning of this month its plans to auction 2,719 Bitcoins that were seized during several criminal, civil and...

Amazon Silk Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Amazon Silk is a cloud browser developed by Amazon.com for its tablet computer, the Kindle Fire. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Amazon Silk version 49.3.1. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack and obtain sensitive information...

Corrupt Federal Agent charged in Silk Road theft accused of stealing another $700,000

A former United States undercover agent who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins during an investigation into the underground drug marketplace Silk Road is now suspected of stealing even more of the cryptocurrency from two other cases. Shaun Bridges is one of two former US...

Silk Road 2.0 Dark-Web Admin Pleads Guilty

An admin of Silk Road 2, named Brian Farrell, who helped maintain the notorious dark web site by providing customer and technical support, approving and suspending vendors, and promoting staff members, has pleaded guilty and could face 8 years in prison. The 28-year-old man, who used the moniker...

Silk paints drawing - Customized SSL, MIT license, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Silk paints drawing published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear: The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. Yes, a federal judge in Washington...

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...

Variety Jones, A Senior Adviser to ‪Silk Road‬ arrested in Thailand

The man accused of being "a senior advisor" and mentor of Ross Ulbricht, the convicted operator of the illegal drug marketplace Silk Road, has been arrested in Thailand and charged with conspiring to traffic drugs and money laundering. The US Department of Justice DoJ announced on Friday that Rog...