Hackers found the dark web site just weeks after the U.S. government did.
Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble
Government websites in Europe and elsewhere went offline after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language that sent website operators around the world scrambling to protect their systems.
What Kind of Literature Lives on the Dark Web?
Depending on who you ask, the “Dark Web”—the Internet’s mysterious undercurrent accessible only through specialized software—is either a libertarian utopia or a criminal hellscape…
Hackers Used New Weapons to Disrupt Major Websites Across U.S. (Published 2016)
Users of Twitter, Netflix and other sites reported failures after a company managing crucial parts of the internet infrastructure said it was under attack.
‘Now we don’t have a safe place’: sex workers’ social media site Switter shuts down amid legal fears
Platform says government changes to online safety and defamation laws in Australia, UK and US made it ‘impossible’ to comply
Dark Code
A few months ago, a founder I know had a data leak that took his security team four days to understand.
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25 – Sabot Media
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it a terrorist organization. On September 25, the wind-down period ends.
Self-Hosting on the Dark Web | David Álvarez Rosa
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.
After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other U.S. government agencies have fought what is often called the “crypto wars”, the war on encryption. In recent years, they have been joined by the European Commission. Under the slogan “what about the children,” they try to introduce total mass surveillance of all EU citizens — first through the proposed Chat Control legislation, and later via the Going Dark and ProtectEU initiatives. The goal is to legally mandate spy tools on every European smartphone and computer. The forces behind these efforts have turned out to be American tech companies and intelligence agencies.
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow
AlphaBay was the largest online drug bazaar in history, run by a technological mastermind who seemed untouchable—until his tech was turned against him.
How I Hacked Into One of the Most Popular Dating Websites
A story of poor backend security in midst of scandals and new regulations.
The Cyber Resilience Act: A Five Alarm Fire
On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
What happened to the fight for the Internet? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
At the moment I am writing this, bad internet bills are being proposed across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK. They're using the usual tactics: they claim they're fighting for kids or fighting security risks, but in general, that's what surveillance and censorship bills have always claimed.
Yahoo open sources its porn-detecting neural network | TechCrunch
Ever wonder how things get marked NSFW on the internet? It's Yahoo. Yahoo does it — with their special-made, smut-trained, porn-detecting neural network. And now you can, too, because the team behind the system has made it open source. I guess you could say they're down to fork.
Dark Web Informer on Twitter / X
‼️🇺🇸 LAPSUS$ Group is allegedly selling a massive dataset of https://t.co/Q6UlD72i8v, an AI recruiting platform with $500M+ revenue, is being auctioned on a popular cybercrime forum, TG, and their website.▪️Total Size: ~4TB▪️Data Includes: 211GB of database▪️939GB of source… pic.twitter.com/hEvp244uNO— Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) March 30, 2026
