The Latest: News from the Underworld
Darknet Monitoring for all Gmail Users in the U.S.
Google revealed today that the dark web report security feature will soon allow all Gmail users in the US to check to see if their email address has been discovered on the dark web. The feature will roll out over the next few weeks, the company added, and access will...
Crackdown: Monopoly Market Seized, 300 Arrested
Authorities in the U.S. and Europe arrested nearly 300 people, confiscated over $53 million, and seized a dark web marketplace as part of an international crackdown on drug trafficking that officials say was the largest operation of its kind. The operation targeting...
EvilExtractor: New Malware Spreads via Darknet
A new "all-in-one" stealer malware named EvilExtractor (also spelled Evil Extractor) is being marketed for sale for other threat actors to steal data and files from Windows systems. "It includes several modules that all work via an FTP service," Fortinet FortiGuard...
India: Two Arrested for Distributing Darknet Drugs
Two local Mumbai distributors were detained after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) agents broke up a darknet-based drug distribution network. The two accused are thought to be highly educated and accomplished darknet computing specialists. They also had 60 grams...
ChatGPT Premium Accounts for Sale on the darknet
Cybercriminals can get through OpenAI's geofencing restrictions and have unfettered access to ChatGPT as more stolen ChatGPT Premium accounts are transferred, claims Check Point Research (CPR). Account takeovers (ATOs) or the sale of stolen accounts to various online...
Circumventing Play Store Security with custom loader apps
To get beyond Google Play Store security, malicious loader programs that can trojanize Android applications are sold for up to $20,000 on the dark web. Based on posts made on internet forums between 2019 and 2023, Kaspersky claimed in a recent analysis that “the most...
Genesis Market Seized by British Police
International law enforcement agencies have seized the sprawling dark web marketplace Genesis Market. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday, in a multinational crackdown dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster.” A banner plastered across Genesis Market’s...
Criminal gang on trial for selling fake prescriptions on the darknet
They advertised Xanax and other benzodiazepines as pills they were selling, then spent the proceeds on Champagne, lunches, and cigars. On the dark web, a group sold bogus prescription medications for more than £20 million. That helped them maintain the opulent...
$400.000 stolen with trojanized TOR browsers
A wave of cryptocurrency thefts targeting victims in numerous nations and using the dark-web browser Tor as a cover have been discovered, indicating the thieves’ motivations are likely financial rather than nationalistic. Antivirus firm Kasperksy claimed to have found...
Report: Darknet Data is critical for IT Security
More than a thousand CISOs from significant companies in the US and UK participated in a recent poll, which found that 93 percent of them are concerned about risks from the darknet and 72 percent think that knowing about cybercriminals is essential to protecting their...