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The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday said it seized 50,676 Bitcoin in November 2021 that was stolen in the 2012 hack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web marketplace.The bitcoin, which was obtained in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion when it was discovered last year, is now worth $1.04 billion.
A 22-year-old student German federal police believe to be the administrator of one of the largest German-speaking, dark-web forums has been arrested. According to German law enforcement, the student, from Lower Bavaria, served as the operator of the third version of Deutschland im Deep Web since November 2018.
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office has arrested a 22-year-old student in Bavaria, who is suspected of being the administrator of 'Deutschland im Deep Web', one of the largest darknet markets in the country. The platform had already gone offline in March 2022, with 16,000 registered users, 28,000 posts, and 72 high-volume sellers of prohibited goods, including weapons and drugs.
A 34-year-old U.K. national has been arraigned in the U.S. for operating a dark web marketplace called The Real Deal that specialized in the sales of hacking tools and stolen login credentials. Daniel Kaye, who went by a litany of pseudonyms Popopret, Bestbuy, UserL0ser, and Spdrman, has been charged with five counts of access device fraud and one count of money laundering conspiracy.
A notorious British hacker was arraigned on Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly running the now defunct 'The Real Deal" dark web marketplace. [...]
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A dark web carding market named 'BidenCash' has released a massive dump of 1,221,551 credit cards to promote their marketplace, allowing anyone to download them for free to conduct financial fraud. Carding is the trafficking and use of credit cards stolen through point-of-sale malware, magecart attacks on websites, or information-stealing malware.
Quantum Builder lets attackers to create malicious Microsoft Windows LNK shortcuts. Quantum Builder has been linked to the advanced persistent threat gang Lazarus Group, based on shared tactics, techniques, and procedures and overlaps in source code, but they can't with any confidence attribute the current campaign to Lazarus or any particular threat group.
A recently discovered malware builder called Quantum Builder is being used to deliver the Agent Tesla remote access trojan. Sold on the dark web for €189 a month, Quantum Builder is a customizable tool for generating malicious shortcut files as well as HTA, ISO, and PowerShell payloads to deliver next-stage malware on the targeted machines, in this case Agent Tesla.
The Armed Forces General Staff agency of Portugal has suffered a cyberattack that allegedly allowed the theft of classified NATO documents, which are now sold on the dark web. EMGFA is the government agency responsible for the control, planning, and operations of the armed forces of Portugal.