Tor and dark web news

Microsoft warned that the built-in File History backup feature in Windows may stop working on some systems after installing the September 2026 security updates.

An Aberystwyth University student received a suspended sentence after downloading 79 indecent images of children from the dark web.

Convicted fraudster Philip Foster has been arrested in Spain after being wanted in the UK for fraud and money laundering.

Claims by officials of cyberattacks against election infrastructure could not be independently verified. Russian officials provided little technical evidence about the attacks or who it claimed who was behind them.

An ongoing npm malware campaign involving the 'indexed-btree' package shows how threat actors bypass supply chain defenses by hiding malicious code in a package's normal runtime behavior rather than in installation scripts.

Researchers escaped OpenAI's Codex sandbox two ways, one running commands on a developer's machine from its most locked-down mode. OpenAI has patched both.

BragJack, a proof-of-concept attack from Forever Security's Gal Weizman, hijacks the AI assistants in Chrome, Edge, Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, and Claude in Chrome using one malicious extension. The Prompt Forcing technique earned over…

A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to…

The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service.

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses callers' moods during calls, and shuts down…

AI actress Tilly Norwood went viral after glitching into Chinese on Piers Morgan Uncensored last night. Her "Talking Tilly" video call service face-scans every caller for an 18+ age check, senses callers' moods during calls, and shuts down…

The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records.

An ongoing malware campaign uses SEO-optimized GitHub repositories to impersonate well-known software firms to push a previously undocumented information stealer called Rapuncel.

A report published Wednesday said that as of July, Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan and Argentina took meaningful steps to respond to allegations involving North Korea listed in an October study.

Microsoft 365 makes sharing files easy, but access can remain long after its original purpose has ended, leaving organizations with little visibility into who can still reach sensitive data. tenfold Software explains how centralized access…