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What we noticed on the dark net was almost immediately a series of schemes and fraud schemes perpetrated toward the banks, the small business administration, and the other agencies that were affected by the stimulus money. What they're using as seed data for these particular loan applications is stolen private information, PII data, of individuals on the dark net.
Kurtis Minder, co-founder and CEO of GroupSense, explains why the coronavirus has been big business for bad actors.
Empire Market is one of the most popular places to buy illegal goods on the dark web, transacting a little over $1,000,000 a week. Empire Market has over 52 thousand listings across 11 categories, but the Drugs & Chemicals category dwarfs the others by an order of magnitude.
Hackers are trying to sell 26 million LiveJournal account credentials following a reported data breach that happened years ago. Following the theft of LiveJournal's user database, multiple ads were posted by Dark Web data brokers, according to ZDNet.
Last week, application security company ImmuniWeb released a new free tool to monitor and measure an organization's exposure on the Dark Web. To improve the decision-making process for cybersecurity professionals, the free tool crawls Dark Web marketplaces, hacking forums, and Surface Web resources such as Pastebin or GitHub to provide you with a classified schema of your data being offered for sale or leaked.
Last week, application security company ImmuniWeb released a new free tool to monitor and measure an organization's exposure on the Dark Web. To improve the decision-making process for cybersecurity professionals, the free tool crawls Dark Web marketplaces, hacking forums, and Surface Web resources such as Pastebin or GitHub to provide you with a classified schema of your data being offered for sale or leaked.
A database containing credentials from more than 26 million LiveJournal accounts has been leaked online and is being sold on the Dark Web and hacker forums. A now-defunct data-leak tracking service, We Leak Info, tweeted in July 2019 about a 2014 leak of 33 million LiveJournal accounts.
Sometimes the term is used in the literal sense of dark to describe a part of the web where the network traffic going to and from it is effectively invisible or untrackable, so that it is dark in the sense of being unilluminated. There you have it: dark as in evil, and dark as in unilluminated.
Web security company ImmuniWeb this week announced a free tool that allows businesses and government organizations to check their dark web exposure. Integrated into ImmuniWeb's Domain Security Test, the new feature provides organizations of all types with the option to check their current exposure by simply entering their main website URL. ImmuniWeb, which says it is serving an average of 50,000 free tests daily, is keeping an eye on hacking forums and underground marketplaces, as well as dedicated IRC channels and Telegram chats, paste websites and other locations on the deep, dark, and surface web where stolen data is offered, traded, or advertised.
There is a flood of interest in accessing corporate networks on the dark web, according to Positive Technologies. Criminals mostly sell access to industrial companies, professional services companies, finance, science and education, and IT. Criminals targeting major companies.