Credential harvesting malware appears on deep web

New cloud-focused credential harvester available on encrypted messaging service Telegram is part of a trend of Python scrapers making it easier to bait multiple phishing hooks.
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For cybercriminal mischief, it’s dark web vs deep web

A new report from cyberthreat intelligence company Cybersixgill sees threat actors swarming to digital bazaars to collaborate, buy and sell malware and credentials.
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Darknet Cybersecurity: How Finance Institutions Can Defend Themselves

Financial firms continue to move to digital-first deployments, as retail branches close, and people shift to remote work. This shift makes understanding and preventing even common darknet, or dark web, threats a priority. Financial cybersecurity investment institutions need to understand what the dark web is, provide their security teams with the tools to explore it […]

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5 Places Where Hackers Are Stealthily Stealing Your Data In 2019

Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs.

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Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested

The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins.

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Night Vision: Navigating the Darknet for Improved Threat Intelligence

Reading Time: 4 minutes Securely accessing the darknet can help organizations overhear criminal conversations, find actionable data, look for evidence of compromise, build better defenses and uncover critical user risks.

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10 Surprisingly Bright Spots on the Darknet

Reading Time: 4 minutes The darknet isn’t all creepy, illegal content. In between criminal marketplaces and hacker forums, there’s a few hidden websites that exist for legitimate purposes.

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Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges

An Irish national has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators who helped run now-defunct dark web marketplace “Silk Road.”

Gary Davis, 31, of Wicklow, Ireland, was known as ‘Libertas’ on the … Continue reading Silk Road Admin Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison On Drug Trafficking Charges

Europol Shuts Down Two Major Illegal ‘Dark Web’ Trading Platforms

Europol announced the shut down of two prolific dark web marketplaces—Wall Street Market and Silkkitie (also known as Valhalla)—in simultaneous global operations against underground websites for trading drugs, stolen credit card numbers, malicious soft… Continue reading Europol Shuts Down Two Major Illegal ‘Dark Web’ Trading Platforms

Round 4 — Hacker Puts 26 Million New Accounts Up For Sale On Dark Web

A hacker who was selling details of nearly 890 million online accounts stolen from 32 popular websites in three separate rounds has now put up a fourth batch of millions of records originating from 6 other sites for sale on the dark web.

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