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.
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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.