Industrial Spy operates an extortion marketplace on the dark web, selling data stolen from victim companies, from selling "premium" data for millions of dollars to selling individual files for as little as $2 and even offering free downloads of the data.

Germany handed over to Ukrainian security forces materials obtained as a result of the seizure of the Hydra dark web marketplace, which allowed Ukraine to begin detaining citizens involved in Hydra's work, and arrests of those involved are now taking place simultaneously in several Ukrainian cities.

Guardian readers can now read the daily news in the Tor network. The Guardian's dark web V3 domain is https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion, please bookmark it.

After a brief exchange with the administrator of the "Eternity Project", a new dark web malware store, "ODN" discovered that the store was offline and that the administrator had shut down access to its website.

Launched three years ago, the Versus dark web marketplace was very popular among the cybercrime community, offering drugs, coin mixing, hacking services, stolen payment cards and the buying and selling of compromised databases. After discovering a serious vulnerability that could have allowed access to its database and exposed the IP addresses of its servers, the administrators of the Versus marketplace chose to shut down the site.

Another type of data extortion cybercrime activity has emerged on a dark web site called RansomHouse, which threatens actors with releasing evidence of stolen files and leaking data from organizations that refuse to pay the ransom. Presumably, the group is made up of security testers who are unhappy with the low bounty payments for vulnerabilities.

Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stocker said he fears state-developed cyber weapons will be on the dark web "within a few years. The topic of cyberwarfare has long been a concern for governments around the world, but it has gained new attention in the Russia-Ukraine war. According to the World Economic Forum's Global Cybersecurity Outlook report, the number of global cyber attacks more than doubled in 2021.

The Onion V3 domain name of the English-language dark web prepaid card provider "Hidden Cards" is http://nhkotz23d7zbxbdjupg4rptjzcaruqwx2qy7qwtby3hon5rr4yaddfqd.onion, which is confirmed to be a fraudulent website. We are determined to expose it and ask our users to beware of it.

Although the "red room" has generated a lot of discussion on social media over the years, and although urban legends about the existence of the "red room" have been circulating for years - so far there is no evidence that they actually exist.

The city of Schlissheim, Germany, informed hundreds of citizens about the dark web data. About a month ago, unidentified individuals hacked into the city's IT systems, and these cybercriminals used malware ("ransomware") to encrypt the city's servers. They did not demand a ransom, but threatened to release the data on the dark web. After the deadline passed, their stolen internal documents were leaked on the Dark Web.