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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.
A report released Tuesday by threat intelligence firm Check Point Research explains how phony COVID-19 vaccine documents are selling on the Dark Web and how to avoid these fake documents. For individuals who don't have such a certificate or can't wait for a vaccine, the Dark Web is becoming home to fake documents, according to Check Point's analysis.
Despite an explosion in the sheer amount of stolen data available on the Dark Web, the value of personal information is holding steady, according to the 2021 Dark Web price index from Privacy Affairs. "The parallels between Dark Web markets and standard consumer markets continue to grow," Hoffman said.
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for. Onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites.
The Dark Web allows cybercriminals to create a Cyber Attacks-as-a-Service ecosystem that outmaneuvers security defenses. Cybersecurity researchers Keman Huang, Michael Siegel, Keri Pearlson and Stuart Madnick in their paper Casting the Dark Web in a New Light, published in the MIT Sloan Management Review, asked whether attackers-who more often than not are one or two steps ahead of cyberdefenders-are more technically adept, or is it something else? The paper was written in 2019, but the material is as relevant now as it was then, and maybe even more so.
The Clop ransomware group has reportedly started posting data on the Dark Web apparently stolen from law firm Jones Day, which represents many of the globe's most powerful people, including former president Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The site DataBreached.net was first to report on the incident and published screenshots of stolen Jones Day files that the Clop group posted on the Dark Web as proof it has the goods.