Dark Cyber Dark Web News for January 2, 2018, Now Available
Dark Cyber reveals the increasingly effective tools law enforcement and intelligence agencies use to light up the Dark Web
"Those who visit Dark Web sites to purchase contraband or to hide their activities have to worry about increasingly sophisticated identity-revealing software. The game of cat-and-mouse forces government authorities to implement systems and methods which can be difficult to detect. Some software allows an invistigator to monitor the Dark Web surfer’s activities in real time."
Dark Cyber, a weekly video news program about the Dark Web, is now available. The January 2, 2018, program can be viewed at www.arnoldit.com/wordpress and on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/248961405.
Dark Cyber reveals the connection between zero day exploits and Tor de-anonymization. Specialist vendors like Gamma Group Finfisher, the Hacking Team and NSO Group provide technology to law enforcement and intelligence professionals. These software components make it possible to strip away some of the security the Onion Router software bundle implements for Dark Web access. Zerodium, One high profile vendor of these exploits is Zerodium. Dark Cyber reveals the million dollar price tag on new Tor exploits.
Stephen E Arnold, author of the Dark Web Notebook, said:
“Those who visit Dark Web sites to purchase contraband or to hide their activities have to worry about increasingly sophisticated identity-revealing software. The game of cat-and-mouse forces government authorities to implement systems and methods which can be difficult to detect. Some software allows an invistigator to monitor the Dark Web surfer’s activities in real time.”
Viewers will learn about the new wave of take downs and seizures of Surface Web and Dark Web sites. With more than 20,000 sites affected, would be scofflaws may be visiting Web sites operated by law enforcement agencies in the UK, the Netherlands, and dozens of other countries.
The program reports that Grams and its sister site Helix have been taken offline. Grams provided a “drug” centric Dark Web search service for three years until it went dark in mid December 2017. Helix offered digital currency laundering and mixing services. These also were shuttered. The Grams Helix technology was offered with an application programming interface or API. The idea was that developers could include Grams and Helix services in third party applications. Dark Cyber reveals that the administrator of these sites and services stepped away from these Dark Web offerings because of the work required to deal with stepped up enforcement and technological change.
Dark Web is a weekly video program distributed via YouTube and Vimeo. The program provides information about the Dark Web and about the tools and technologies used to hide, obfuscate, and encrypt a wide range of online activities, products, and services.
About Stephen E Arnold
Mr. Arnold is the author of CyberOSINT: Next Generation Information Access (www.xenky.com/cyberosint) and the best selling “Dark Web Notebook” (www.xenky.com/darkwebnotebook). For a decade he has published Beyond Search, a widely read Web publication which covers online and information access topics. For more information about Mr. Arnold, navigate to http://www.arnoldit.com/bio/bio-short.html.
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