dark web

Federal agents are becoming better at busting drugs bought online through the dark web and ultimately preventing them from entering the country via the mail service. Agents can scan only a few of the millions of international packages that enter into the country each year. In 2016 at the JFK...

By now most of us have heard about the Dark Web and know you can buy all sorts of illegal stuff there. However, I bet you didn't know how little you have to spend to be a scammer. It's unbelievable how low the prices are for hacking tools. Prices range from less than 2GBP to more than 38,000GBP...

I am not sure what Lance Cottrell has been doing on the dark web, but they took his Bitcoin and are not letting him play with the other Dark Webbers any more! Seriously, if you think that the Dark Web and Tor hides all your identities and secrets, then think again. It seems as though the folks...

Just the other day we were talking about military documents on the dark web selling for as little as $200 and today the talk is about hackers selling backdoors into PCs for just $10 on the dark web. This latest offer was discovered when researchers at McAfee Labs looked into the sale of remote...

Israel's NSO Group is a smartphone surveillance corporation that creates hacks for iOS and Android devices. These tools allow governments to crack the security on mobile devices such as the iPhone. One of their employees disabled the McAfee Security software on their company PC, stole the...

Author Yasha Levine is writing a book called Surveillance Valley, and in his research, filed a FIOA request that produced nearly 2,500 pages of correspondence between the Tor Project, and it's main funder, a CIA spinoff now known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). Yasha has released...

According to a study by Recorded Future, Litecoin is starting to be accepted more and more on the Dark Web in place of the standard-bearer, Bitcoin. The reasons are many, but transaction fees and speed appear to be some of the main complaints against Bitcoin. Of course this is the Dark Web and...

A white paper was released today by UK based private cyber intelligence company, RepKnight. The document is an analysis of dark web footprints of domains belonging to the top 500 law firms in the UK, using their "BreachAlert" platform. The analysis found the details of more than 1 million hacked...

We reported on Monday that the dark web's AlphaBay has been seized by the government. Also included in that was the seizure of the Hansa Market. There were a lot of questions surrounding the Hansa Market as it was not well known in tech circles. It turns out that the Hansa Market was a...

Mystery, suicide, intrigue, and digital currency make a headline over at the hacker news which reads a bit like it came out of an episode of NCIS. Actually I have never seen that show, so what do I know. The raid also resulted in the arrest of Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian citizen...

Newsweek is reporting that more than 10,000 websites were taken offline on Friday after a hacker associated with Anonymous targeted Freedom Hosting II, a hosting company allegedly hosting child pr0n. (Warning, the linked story, while safe for work, does starts playing automatically.) According...