Dark Web

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2019
Fraudulent purchases of digitals certificates through executive impersonation

Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the black market. Researchers at ReversingLabs have identified a new threat actor that is buying digital certificates by impersonating company executives, and then selling them on the black market. The experts discovered that digital certificates are then […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2019
Police dismantled Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web

The European authorities announced to have dismantled Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. A joint operation conducted by The Portuguese Judicial Police (Polícia Judiciária) along with with the Europol allowed dismantling Europe’s second-largest counterfeit currency network on the dark web. The authorities announced the arrest of five members of the counterfeit currency […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2019
Hacker will compensate victims with $1.1 million Bitcoin illegally earned

UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 million) worth of Bitcoin from a prolific hacker, the funds will be used to compensate his victims. Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ The man was charged with multiple […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2019
Cerberus, a new banking Trojan available as malware-as-a-service in the underground

Security experts analyzed a new interesting Android banking Trojan, dubbed Cerberus, that is offered for rent by its author. A new malware-as-a-service dubbed Cerberus has emerged in the threat landscape, it is an Android RAT developed from scratch that doesn’t borrow the code from other malware. According to researchers at Threat Fabric who analyzed the threat, Cerberus […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Last week media reported the hack of StockX, the fashion and sneaker trading platform. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2019
StockX hacked, customers’ data offered for sale on the dark web

StockX, the live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, announced a data breach. StockX is a live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, the company announced that the sneaker and streetwear buying platform had been hacked. An unauthorized user was able to access customer data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2019
Prolific Dark Web dealer of drugs pleads guilty

One of the most active drug sellers on the Dark Web was charged by law authorities and ordered to forfeit over $4 million in cryptocurrency.  The US Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Richard Castro (36) (aka “Chemsusa,” “Chems_usa,” and “Jagger109”) with participating in a conspiracy to distribute carfentanil, fentanyl, and a fentanyl analogue over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2019
Over 23 million stolen payment card data traded on the Dark Web in H1 2019

According to a report published by cyber security firm Sixgill data for over 23 million payment card were on offer in underground forums in the first half of 2019.  A report published by cybersecurity firm Sixgill revealed that data for over 23 million payment card were offered for sale in the cybercrime underground. The report, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
Irish Silk Road admin sentenced to 78 months in federal prison

An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2019
Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with scrapers. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic. First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against […]