The acquisition comes amid a massive increase in criminal activity on the dark web, which the companies claim will help better protect global businesses on a broader scale.

Updates to Tor Browser version 10.5 focus on improving the process for users when they first connect to Tor, as well as making Tor launch automatically by removing the Tor Launcher UI and relying on a better UI embedded in the browser's home screen to provide visual feedback for subsequent use.

Japanese media are paranoid about the Chinese dark web, claiming that users on the Chinese dark web trade hacking skills and seek to invade Japanese and Korean websites.

There is a good reason why the dark web marketplace Hydra is thriving in Russia, mainly because of Putin's protection.

The Tor Project and the Debian Project have been working together, and back in 2016 the Debian Project enabled the Tor Onion service for its site to provide Debian services and repositories over the Tor network.

The stolen data included usernames, plain text passwords, IP addresses and billing information. The attack also included the public and private keys of LimeVPN users, the researchers added.

That case almost reads like a spy novel because some of the things that had to happen – the timing of certain things, putting trackers on vehicles the surveillance. It was a very complicated case but it was worth the effort.

Researchers are discovering an uptick in activity on dark web forums that includes buying and selling black hat hacking services. 90% of the activity on these forums is from people looking to hire hackers to infiltrate websites and steal databases.

Interpol will expand Project Pandora to Southeast Asia next year, including countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, to help combat biochemical threats emerging from the dark web.

In October 2021, we will release new Tor client stable versions for all supported series that will disable v2.