Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators reportedly pulled an “exit scam” that left users unable to withdraw millions of dollars worth of funds from the platform. Continue reading Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers

Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities IM Screen Names – An OSINT Analysis

Dear blog readers,I’ve decided to share with everyone a currently active portfolio of IM screen names from the infamous Shadow Crew cybercrime-friendly forum community part of a currently ongoing Technical Collection campaign for the purpose of assisti… Continue reading Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities IM Screen Names – An OSINT Analysis

Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities ICQ UINs – An OSINT Analysis

Dear blog readers,I’ve decided to share with everyone a currently active portfolio of IM screen names from the infamous Shadow Crew cybercrime-friendly forum community part of a currently ongoing Technical Collection campaign for the purpose of assisti… Continue reading Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities ICQ UINs – An OSINT Analysis

Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities Personal Email Address Accounts – An OSINT Analysis

Dear blog readers,I’ve decided to share with everyone a currently active portfolio of IM screen names from the infamous Shadow Crew cybercrime-friendly forum community part of a currently ongoing Technical Collection campaign for the purpose of assisti… Continue reading Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities Personal Email Address Accounts – An OSINT Analysis

Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities IP Addresses – An OSINT Analysis

Dear blog readers,I’ve decided to share with everyone a currently active portfolio of IM screen names from the infamous Shadow Crew cybercrime-friendly forum community part of a currently ongoing Technical Collection campaign for the purpose of assisti… Continue reading Exposing A Portfolio of Shadow Crew Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Communities IP Addresses – An OSINT Analysis

Malicious Life Podcast: The State of Credit Card Security

In 2005, when Albert Gonzalez was hacking his way into the networks of many retail chains in the US (listen to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), credit cards were still very insecure: magnetic stripes and signed receipts did little to stop smart hacker… Continue reading Malicious Life Podcast: The State of Credit Card Security

Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 2

In this second installment of the series (listen to Albert Gonzales Part 1 here), Gonzales is working with the Secret Service and apparently doing an outstanding job. He was such a good employee, in fact, that they had him doing seminars for staff… Continue reading Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 2