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Shutdowns like this have become a recurring feature of the dark web. They are usually not a significant turning point.
There has been an 830% rise in online child sexual abuse imagery since 2014 – and AI is fuelling this further.
Consumers lose more than $5 billion a year to fraud involving gift cards, while the industry exploits regulatory loopholes and delays solutions.
Consumers lose more than $5 billion a year to fraud involving gift cards, while the industry exploits regulatory loopholes and delays solutions.
Police efforts to sort through online child sexual exploitation material are being hampered by the rise in AI-generated imagery. Here’s how they’re working to combat the problem.
Buyers and sellers alike use this system to not get caught.
Professor David Maimon describes how his team investigated criminal enterprises on the dark web.
Check fraud is one of history’s oldest financial crimes and criminals are finding new ways to use it to steal billions from banks.
Cyber bank fraud is on the rise. Here are some important ways to protect yourself.
Most wildlife is trafficked openly, while dark web markets sell animals, plants and fungi as drugs. But this could change if there’s a clampdown on open trade.
Online child sexual abuse has been described as one of the most urgent and defining issues we face. Tackling it at the root is imperative.
Tor Market is now the longest-running English-language market for illegal drugs on the dark web. But its success and profile may contain the seeds of its own downfall.
If you’ve been affected by the Optus data breach, the danger is far from over – no matter what the purported hacker is claiming.
One study found 80% of darknet traffic on Tor went to sites hosting unmoderated porn and child sex abuse material.
A thriving black market for stolen personal data makes millions of people vulnerable to spies, spammers, scammers and hackers.
Deplatformed groups can all too easily flock to alternative platforms to coordinate.
Sophisticated fake social media personas created by North Korean hackers offered to collaborate with cybersecurity researchers. Several US researchers fell for it.
The global pandemic has fueled illicit online sales of COVID-19 commodities, some of which are dangerous or illegal. Researchers are assessing the size and reach of this underground market.
These online spaces are more regulated than many media reports would have you believe. And the vast majority of dark web traders are steering clear of exploiting the pandemic.
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