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latest ransomware claims
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- krybit 15 claims 6 DLS
- qilin 12 claims 3 DLS
- SilentRansomGroup 8 claims 1 DLS
- Storm 8 claims 1 DLS
- direwolf 7 claims 1 DLS
- akira 6 claims 1 DLS
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the hacker news · bleepingcomputer · krebs on security · dark reading- Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication
Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska's…
- Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of t…
- Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec…
- Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials
JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to br…
- Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code
Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability…
- Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain
A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). [...]
- Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, emai…
- OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident
OpenAI admits it did not disclose an incident where autonomous AI agents hijacked a German wiki, created 18,000 posts, shared answers, and bypassed restrictions, saying it treated the activity as model "misalignment" ra…
- Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a…
- Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed a…
- IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver's licenses. [...]
- Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously — and in some cases, inadvertently — conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon.
- Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them t…
- Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks
Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. [...]
- PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2…
- New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selecte…
- Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems. [...]
- 39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication
Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abuse authentication prompts, synced credent…
- New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges
An anonymous security researcher who uses the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle released a CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit named "FalconFlank" that lets attackers escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]
- AI Is Ending the Era of Hidden Vulnerabilities — Are Vendors Ready?
A tidal wave of bug reports is overwhelming software vendors, exposing secure-by-design failures and creating disclosure bottlenecks.
- Exchange Online outage causes email delays, 'Server busy' errors
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is delaying email sent to and received from external domains. [...]
- Insurers Search for Answers to Rein in Rogue AI
As incidents of unintended harm caused by rogue AI agents mount, CISOs and insurance firms are figuring out how to handle the fallout.
- Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks
Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities. [...]
- Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) -…
- French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]
- Large Enterprises Targeted in Fake Merger & Acquisition Scams
Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating large financial transfers.
- Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules
Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. [...]
- What We Missed: Did ShinyHunters 'Breach' ReliaQuest?
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the latest antics of ShinyHunters to new research about the prevalence (or lack thereof) of AI-generated…
- HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]
- What the AI Warning Letter Completely Missed
The recent AI warning letter is right about the "window," but it omits naming who is coming through it or, critically, who will close it.
- AI 'Machine Speed' Cuts 2-Week Attack Down to 10 Hours
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
- 'Breeze Comet' Tears Into Brazilian & Global Financial Systems
Brazil's most sophisticated threat group is making light work of the country's financial systems, putting money directly into its own pocket.
- AI's Vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Feared
New research suggests the coming Vulnpocalypse may not be so overwhelming for enterprise security teams — if they have the right strategies.
- SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Enable Unauthenticated RCE
The exploitation activity follows attacks earlier this summer on two other zero-day vulnerabilities in the vendor's edge devices.
- AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage
Former cybercriminal Brett Johnson provides a look inside the mind of a threat actor and discusses where AI provides the most value for attackers.
- Threat Gang 'Springs' Vishing Attacks on Microsoft Teams Users
The "Spring Ring" operation aims to compromise users of the collaboration suite to remotely access their sessions, spread malware, and even take over infrastructure.
- FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose…
- Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. I…
- Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily p…
- Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others th…
- Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used th…
- Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connecti…
- LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after…
- Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record…
- Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub…
- Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures in…
darknet watchlist
official onion services, verified against publisher announcementsnews & media
major outlets that publish official Tor mirrors for readers under censorship
- BBC News
www.bbcnewsd73hkzno2ini43t4gblxvycyac5aw4gnv7t2rccijh7745uqd.onion/
official BBC News Tor mirror for censored regions
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
- The New York Times
www.nytimes3xbfgragh.onion/
NYT onion service, live since October 2017
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
- ProPublica
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first major newsroom on Tor; full site mirror
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
privacy & tools
infrastructure you should only ever reach over its onion when privacy matters
- Tor Project
2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/
download Tor Browser without leaving the network
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
- DuckDuckGo
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no-tracking search engine, native onion endpoint
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
- Proton Mail
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encrypted mail over Tor; address unchanged since launch
✓ verified 2026-08-23 · clearnet mirror
government & reference
the odd but real corners: intelligence agencies, archives, and status trackers
- Facebook
facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion/
largest consumer site running an official onion since 2014
✓ verified 2026-08-22 · clearnet mirror
- CIA
ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/
the agency's official onion contact portal
✓ verified 2026-08-22 · clearnet mirror
- Archive.today
archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/
webpage snapshot archive, reachable when clearnet blocks you
✓ verified 2026-08-22 · clearnet mirror
- dark.fail
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pgp-verified uptime tracker for popular onion services
✓ verified 2026-08-22 · clearnet mirror
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