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A new dark web marketplace called STYX launched earlier this year and appears to be on its way to becoming a thriving hub for buying and selling illegal services or stolen data. However analysts at threat intelligence company Resecurity noticed mentions of STYX on the dark web since early 2022, when the founders were still building the escrow module.
93 percent of CISOs are concerned about dark web threats, and almost 72 percent of CISOs believe that intelligence on cybercriminals is "Critical" to defend their organization and increase cybersecurity, according to Searchlight Cyber. The report findings show that most CISOs use threat intelligence to address security concerns, and 79 percent of CISOs are currently gathering data from the dark web.
Even though your company may not have suffered a direct breach, your data may already be on the Dark Web. Breaches end up being marketed by hackers with data descriptions and auction demands, often in Bitcoin.
Secondly, introducing the dark web report in the U.S. will aid in better monitoring personal information.Google One has announced that VPN access will be expanded to all its plans, including the Basic plan that starts at $1.99/month.
According to Kaspersky's new research, this tech job recruiting environment is only an illusion - legal jobs are rare on the dark web. Why are some IT pros looking for jobs on the dark web?
Cybercrime groups are increasingly running their operations as a business, promoting jobs on the dark web that offer developers and hackers competitive monthly salaries, paid time off, and paid sick leaves. In a new report by Kaspersky, which analyzed 200,000 job ads posted on 155 dark websites between March 2020 and June 2022, hacking groups and APT groups seek to hire mainly software developers, offering very competitive packages to entice them.
Today, the Hive ransomware Tor payment and data leak sites were seized as part of an international law enforcement operation involving the US Department of Justice, FBI, Secret Service, Europol, and Germany's BKA and Polizei. The seizure notice on the Tor sites also lists a wide range of other countries involved in the law enforcement operation, including Canda, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
A New York resident has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud using stolen credit cards purchased on dark web cybercrime marketplaces. According to the indictment shared in the U.S. Department of Justice announcement, Osagie purchased thousands of credit and debit card data from dark web markets.
Pakistan's government has warned its agencies that the dark web exists, is home to all sorts of unpleasant people, and should be avoided. Linking the dark web to terrorism therefore associates the networks with threats to national security.
The dark web is getting darker as cybercrime gangs increasingly shop their malware, phishing, and ransomware tools on illegal cybercrime markets. In 2022, threat actors preferred joining a RaaS for ransomware attacks as they tend to have more freedom and can deploy faster than private ransomware.