The Latest: News from the Underworld
More Twitter Users' Data for Sale on the Dark Web
Researchers are alerting the public that data from 200 million Twitter users has been acquired and made available for free on a darknet hacking forum. This seems to be a different dataset than the one we have previously reported. According to a Privacy Affairs probe,...
Darknet intelligence market worth 1.3 billion by 2028
According to market researcher Research and Markets, the global darknet intelligence market will develop at a compound annual growth rate of 22.3% between 2022 and 2028. Additionally, by 2028, this market may be valued $1.3 billion. There are a number of factors that...
Indian Railway: Customer data exposed on the dark web
Millions of Indian Railway users' personal information appears to have been exposed online. According to rumors, a hacker has put the data up for sale on the dark web. Only a few days have passed since the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), India's...
Hacker sells data from 400 million Twitter users on the Darknet
400 million Twitter users' public and private data were scraped in 2021 using a now-fixed API vulnerability, according to a threat actor. The price for an exclusive sale is $200,000. On the Breached hacking forum, a website frequently used to sell user data obtained...
India: Police detain 4 people for selling drugs on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin.
Four people were detained in Lucknow by the Uttar Pradesh Police for selling illegal substances to a global gang on the dark web in exchange for bitcoin. The gang's strategy was selling drugs to foreign customers that they obtained from nearby Lucknow neighborhoods....
InfraGard data sale on the dark web put on hold
On a cybercrime and hacker forum, the InfraGard database containing the personal information of 87,000 users was initially being sold for $50,000. As we have previously reported, a hacker using the online alias "USDoD" was in the process of selling a database that...
Two Americans indicted for selling fake oxycodone on the dark web
Two individuals, one from Texas and the other from California, may potentially face life imprisonment after being accused of using the dark web and encrypted messaging apps to sell over 120,000 fake oxycodone pills contaminated with fentanyl. Rajiv Srinivasan, 37, of...
InfraGard: Data of 80k members stolen and sold on Darknet
According to reports, a hacker using by the pseudonym "USDoD" acquired the contact information of more than 80,000 participants in the FBI program InfraGard and posted it for sale on an English-speaking Dark Web site. According to KrebsOnSecurity, which broke the...
Careful with Fentanyl on the Dark Web
As a result of an investigation into local fentanyl overdoses, a 68-year-old man has been charged with possession of cocaine and methamphetamine with intent to supply. 13 people reportedly took fentanyl thinking it was cocaine in July and overdosed. A police...
Cybersecurity outfit turns victim after exposing dark web hack
The Indian cybersecurity company CloudSEK claimed last week that patient data from Sree Saran Medical Center was sold on the dark web. Now, CloudSEK's own customer list and purchase orders were exposed this week. The cybersecurity company CloudSEK, located in...