Tails 7.4 Adds Persistent Locale, Drops BitTorrent

Linux 6.12.63, Tor Browser 15.0.4, and critical bug fixes arrive in Tails 7.4 alongside a controversial feature cut.

Monero 0.18.4.5 Fixes Ledger Crash Bug

Monero 0.18.4.5 arrives with Ledger Nano Gen5 compatibility and patches for daemon synchronization problems.

Threema Sold to Private Equity Again

Your encrypted messages sit on infrastructure controlled by a German private equity firm whose previous acquisitions include Cloud7 premium dog beds and The Tofoo Company.

Up in Smoke: How X-Rays Burned a €3.75M Cocaine Run

Hiding 53.5 kilograms of cocaine in a vehicle's exhaust system worked exactly as well as anyone with basic OPSEC knowledge would expect Revenue officers found it in minutes.

GNUnet 0.26.2: Post-Quantum Layer and UTF-8 API Fixes

GNUnet 0.26.2 shipped December 22, 2025 with two targeted bugfixes: NULL reporting in the post-quantum cryptography layer and UTF-8 case conversion API repair.

How Tor Circuits Actually Work Under the Hood

Every Tor circuit travels through exactly three relays, but the algorithm selecting those relays determines whether your traffic stays anonymous or gets correlated.

Qubes OS 4.3: Faster Disposables, Better Device Control

The latest Qubes release eliminates disposable VM boot delays while introducing self-identity device assignment for hardware you actually control.

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Your Printer is Snitching On YOU!

Color laser printers have contained hidden surveillance technology since the mid-1980s. Xerox and Canon developed Machine Identification Code, a system of microscopic yellow dots that encode your printer's serial number and the exact date and time of every print job. This technology was implemented through a secret agreement

Tails 7.3.1 Ships with Vertical Tabs and Security Fix

The update includes Tor Browser 15.0.3 with vertical tabs and tab groups, the first major interface change to hit the anonymous browser in years.

312 Dormant Silk Road Wallets Spring Back to Life

The 176 transactions over 12 hours suggest either someone methodically testing wallet access or an automated sweep consolidating legacy addresses into modern bech32 format.

Tor Browser 15.0.3: NoScript Goes Independent

The Tor Project now hosts its own NoScript builds, versioned with ".1984" suffixes to mark independence from Mozilla's Add-ons infrastructure.

Darknet Markets

Omerta Market Lasted 15 Days Before IP Leak Exposure

A darknet market that claimed two years of development leaked its server IP within approximately two weeks of launch.

simplex

SimpleX Chat's X Account Hijacked for Crypto Scam

Hackers blocked the company founder from his own brand's account while promoting wallet-draining scam links.

drugs

Prison for the competition, settlements for the connected

Federal prosecutors celebrate busting consensual drug sales while pharmaceutical executives who created the opioid epidemic face zero prison time.

Darknet Markets

The CSAM Buyer Who Ran Bohemia's 12 Million Euro Drug Empire

The architect behind 67,000 monthly drug transactions and 12 million euros in peak revenue also maintained a collection of child abuse images he purchased with cryptocurrency.

Session

Session Group Encryption: Sealed Sender Without PFS Tradeoffs

Session trades Perfect Forward Secrecy for metadata minimization, routing encrypted messages through three-hop onion paths to protect sender and recipient identities from network observers.

europol

Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns

Europol recently announced the seizure of 25 million euros in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency mixer Cryptomixer.io.

Tor

Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits

After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.

Monero

Monero Wallet Scanning: How View Tags Cut Sync Time

View tags reduce Monero wallet scanning time by skipping 99.6% of expensive elliptic curve operations using 1-byte matching.

Microsoft

Microsoft Builds Location Tracking Into Teams

Microsoft's newest Teams feature automatically reports your physical location to management whenever you connect to corporate Wi-Fi, turning your laptop into a compliance verification device.

Privacy

The EU is Destroying Privacy

The EU just approved a negotiating mandate for Chat Control - mass scanning of encrypted communications. Articles 1 and 7 explicitly exempt police, military, intelligence, and EU officials from the scanning. Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private. Sixty percent of child abuse material worldwide is hosted on EU servers.

Whonix

Whonix 18 Testing Rewrites Kloak for Wayland Protection

The Tor anonymity OS enters testing with a keystroke anonymization rewrite featuring native Wayland support and IPv6 across the network stack.

kicksecure

Kicksecure Testing Release Brings Hardened Debian Trixie

Cold boot attacks and BadUSB exploits face new obstacles as Kicksecure testing enables RAM wiping and USBGuard out of the box.