Tagged: dark web

July 16, 2024 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The details of more than 600,000 bank cards around the world have been leaked on the dark web, according to a new report by cybersecurity company NordVPN. The research report uncovered that financial information “is being harvested from users through malware.” This malicious software is… Read More

January 4, 2024 @ 5:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a Web3 money platform, announced a significant enhancement in its measures to combat Dark Web activities and money mule threats. The company has reportedly “incorporated ZeroFox’s Dark Web Monitoring tool into its system, creating a unified solution.” This way, a combination of human and… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 4:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Fueled a high-tech axis of cryptocrime.” The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov, 40, a Russian national who resides in Shenzhen, China, as the founder and operator of Bitzlato, a crypto exchange the feds have alleged to have processed… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Alex Zeltcer  |  

There’s no doubt in the minds of financial organizations and anti-laundering regulators that Know Your Customer (KYC) verified accounts prevent fraudulent activity– and that’s exactly the problem. In the early 1990s, governments around the globe had a growing concern about preventing the increasingly connected banking… Read More

January 29, 2022 @ 12:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than 1.5 million US banking/payment cards may reportedly be found via the dark web, according to a study carried out by cybersecurity firm NordVPN. The study by NordVPN reveals that a total of 1,561,739 American payment card details had been discovered by researchers. This… Read More

December 1, 2021 @ 5:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Americans are the most common target of payment card fraud, based on details for sale on the dark web, new research published this week by NordVPN shows. The company analyzed 4.5 million payment card details belonging to citizens of 140 countries that were found by… Read More

November 19, 2021 @ 11:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A review of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) enforcement actions in this fiscal year show a growing threat posed by cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) scammers. The year ended Sept. 30. The SEC filed 434 new enforcement actions in FY2021, and that is a… Read More

August 14, 2021 @ 1:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A blockchain analytics tool has reportedly been introduced on the dark web, enabling Bitcoin or BTC addresses to be checked for “links to criminal activity.” Known as Antinalysis, it allows cryptocurrency launderers to test or determine whether their funds will be “identified as proceeds of… Read More

May 17, 2021 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zack Voell, a cryptocurrency mining specialist, writes in a blog post published by Compass that block 682,170 was the first “clean” block that was mined by public mining firm Marathon’s new pool. Voell writes in a detailed post from Compass, a “Bitcoin-first” company that aims… Read More

August 17, 2020 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cyberattacks against US-based financial industry firms increased by around 240% between February and April 2020, according to a new report. These attacks have become more prevalent after the global COVID-19 outbreak, as more individuals and businesses are using online services. Tom Kellerman, head of cybersecurity… Read More

May 7, 2020 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report from Rand (Research And Development) Corporation, an American non-profit global policy think tank that’s funded by the US government (and private endowment corporations, universities, and private individuals), claims that Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is being used to carry out a relatively… Read More

April 30, 2020 @ 11:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

ClearScore, a UK credit checking service, announced on Thursday it has launched ClearScore Protect, a free anti-fraud dark web monitoring service. Along with the service, ClearScore released nationally representative research that reveals a third of adults in the UK have been victims of online fraud…. Read More

December 12, 2019 @ 1:17 am By Cali Haan  |  

Group-IB, a Moscow-founded cybersecurity firm now based in Singapore, “has detected a massive upload of debit and credit card records …on one of the most popular underground cardshops.” According to the firm, between October 28th and November 27th of this year, criminals uploaded more than 460,000… Read More

November 20, 2019 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Elliptic, a provider of crypto-asset risk management solutions, has launched a monitoring system for XRP (Ripple) transactions. Simultaneously, Elliptic claims they have identified “$400 million of illicit activity” without naming perpetrators nor specifically what type of illegal transactions are taking place. Elliptic notes that this… Read More

October 6, 2019 @ 3:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alaa Mohammed Allawi, a former interpreter for the US military forces, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for selling fentanyl, which resulted in the death of a US marine. Allawi, who previously worked as an Iraqi US interpreter, will be serving his sentence… Read More

July 30, 2019 @ 1:53 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man who pleaded guilty in New York to distributing, “prolific quantities of powerful opioids,’ has also agreed to forfeit $4,156,198.18, “including the funds or currency in seven different Bitcoin wallet addresses.” The release regarding the plea and forfeiture from the Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Attorney’s… Read More

July 22, 2019 @ 9:53 pm By Cali Haan  |  

An accused narcotrafficker has been charged with money laundering by the State of New York for allegedly trying to “wash $19 million in illicit cryptocurrency.” Hugh Brian Haney, 60, allegedly came by the funds as, “proceeds of his narcotics trafficking on the Dark Web site… Read More

April 24, 2019 @ 11:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two men who ran a Dark Net website called NextDayGear from which they sold more than 10 000 packages of illicit drugs have been convicted in New York. The men, Callaway Crain, 35, and Mark Sanchez, 35, both plead guilty, and now face between 2.5 and… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 1:48 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker that posted 620 million individual’s data for sale earlier this week on the Dark Net marketplace “Dream Market” has now added the private data of an additional 127 million people, including 450 000 users of the Israel-based crypto exchange, Coinmama, TechCrunch reports. The… Read More

February 3, 2019 @ 12:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Oakland, California resident Sandford Bemi Faison is being held on charges alleging he tried to buy a toxic chemical on the Dark Net in order to poison his estranged spouse, The Los Angeles Times reports. The intended victim is also the mother of the accused’s two… Read More