Multiple security researchers have expressed skepticism about the reality of the attack, suggesting that Lockbit is bluffing and that there is no evidence to support its claims.

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The Nemesis marketplace sells a variety of illegal goods - drugs, stolen data and cybercrime services such as ransomware and tools for conducting phishing or DDoS attacks. The seizure of the Nemesis Market is an important milestone in the fight against the dark web market.

The team behind the Incognito marketplace claims to have crypto-asset transaction logs and archived user conversations, and warns that this information will be leaked to law enforcement unless a ransom is paid.

German law enforcement agencies have successfully dismantled the "Kingdom Market", a notorious darknet marketplace that was a hub for illegal goods and services. The closure of the Kingdom Market was part of an internationally coordinated operation, which had a server infrastructure in several countries.

A cyber security and intelligence report by Resecurity claims that personal details of 815 million Indian citizens are being sold on the dark web. Threat actors claim that the data (citizen details extracted from the COVID-19 test) comes from the Indian Council of Medical Research.

New details have emerged in the case of a 53-year-old Lower Austrian man who is said to have been looking for a professional assassin on the dark web to kill his ex-girlfriend. According to the indictment, he allegedly placed ads on the dark web with precise ideas and contacted a person.

This release includes a series of accessibility and user experience improvements, as well as more modern application icons and a homepage. These changes are aimed at enhancing the performance and usability of the Tor Browser, making it more suitable for a broader audience, especially those who use screen readers and assistive technologies. The new version also addresses some issues present in previous releases, such as the 'red screen' error state, while improving window sizing and display effects to better adapt to the modern web.

The Tor2Door Market's darknet domain is currently unavailable, while the two mirror sites t2d.to and t2d.su are also inaccessible, and it is not known whether these two mirror domains are officially owned by the Tor2Door Market.

This move is intended to increase the cost of DoS attacks to unsustainable levels while prioritizing legitimate traffic and discouraging attack traffic. Introducing a proof-of-work mechanism will discourage attackers by making large-scale attacks costly and impractical. The Tor Project therefore encourages users to upgrade the Onion service to version 0.4.8.