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ZeroFox announced it has joined forces with Vigilante, a globally recognized expert in Dark Web Threat Intelligence, adding to its intelligence portfolio. ZeroFox's now-enhanced platform delivers the ability to understand public attack surface exposure and protect organizations from dark web activity at an even greater scale.

Researchers added the attack also included public and private keys of LimeVPN users. "The hacker informed us that they have the private keys of every user, which is a serious security issue as it means they can easily decrypt every LimeVPN user's traffic," the firm said in a posting.

Bogus COVID-19 test results, fraudulent vaccination cards, and questionable vaccines are emerging a hot commodity on the dark web in what's the latest in a long list of cybercrimes capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic. "As a result, illegal COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination records are in high demand on darknet marketplaces."

An unknown threat actor managed to control more than 27% of the entire Tor network exit capacity in early February 2021, a new study on the dark web infrastructure revealed. "The entity attacking Tor users is actively exploiting tor users since over a year and expanded the scale of their attacks to a new record level," an independent security researcher who goes by the name nusenu said in a write-up published on Sunday.

We look at the big-money hacks from the 2021 Pwn2Own competition. We investigate the difficulties of hiring an assassin via the dark web.

In a brief yet fascinating press release, Europol just announced the arrest of an Italian man who is accused of "Hiring a hitman on the dark web". No victim targeted for murder via the dark web is ever going to take much comfort in the fact that their proposed assassin "Might not have been real."

An Israeli national has pleaded guilty to his role in operating DeepDotWeb, a website that functioned as a gateway to various Dark Web marketplaces, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The man, Tal Prihar, 37, together with co-defendant Michael Phan, 34, of Israel, owned and operated DeepDotWeb between October 2013 and May 2019, when the website was seized by authorities.

Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a message from the company, dated March 30.

Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that. "Some users have reported that their data is visible on the dark web," reads a message from the company, dated March 30.

Ever since the first dark web monitoring services became available, around 2005, consumers of such services often asked - why aren't these websites being taken down? After all, the sites that comprise the dark web are platforms and tools for illegal activities. There is a case to be made for adopting the other strategy - disrupt the dark web as much as possible - and it seems that unlike the early days of dark web monitoring, it is not one that is discussed at all.