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Someone claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous compromised a private web hosting service last week, taking down more than 10,000 sites on the highly encrypted "dark web," security researchers said.

One billion Salesforce customer records are allegedly up for grabs on the dark web unless a ransom is paid to the hackers behind the leak. Credit: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Does your ...

Hackers operating on the dark web are claiming to possess and sell sensitive personal data of users from major crypto exchanges Gemini and Binance. A threat actor identified as "AKM69" has reportedly ...

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When it popped back up, Elon Musk said the site had been hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote. “We get attacked ...

Update, Dec. 27, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 25 now includes a breakdown of the know your customer attack threat methodology that the newly discovered dark web facial identity resource ...

Twitter users were hit with three separate outages on Monday — and Elon Musk has said a "country" could be involved. Writing on X, Musk said, "There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We ...