{"id":13305,"date":"2014-03-10T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13305"},"modified":"2014-03-10T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T16:54:09","slug":"the-dark-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13305","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Web"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a Twitter network for a political hashtag in the US, produced by Truthy. We see two clearly separated clusters, corresponding to conservative and liberal communities. Retweets, which tend to stay in the same community, are shown in blue. Mentions, shown in orange, connect the two communities. Image \u00a9 Truthy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cybercriminals are settling into a comfortable place in the \u201cDark Web\u201d where they test, refine and distribute malware for online crimes.<\/p>\n

It sounds sinister, and it is. Big Brother is breaching your privacy, and terrorists and criminals are busy with a practice called\u00a0astroturfing<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 creating the false impression that there’s huge grassroots support for some cause or person using false user accounts. It’s a big problem in elections and other types of political conflicts.<\/p>\n

Automated tools to collect and analyse terrorist content from the Internet have been developed. like\u00a0Truthy<\/a>, a free tool for analysing how information spreads on Twitter that has been useful in spotting astroturfing.<\/p>\n

McAfee, the US Internet security specialist, also noted that a huge data breach that affected as many as 110 million customers of the US retailer Target may also be just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n

In its quarterly threat assessment released Monday, McAfee Labs noted the relative ease with which this type of malware is bought and sold in \u201cDark Web\u201d marketplaces.<\/p>\n

McAfee researchers concluded that the malware for the Target attacks used \u201crelatively unsophisticated technologies likely purchased \u2018off the shelf\u2019 from the Cybercrime-as-a-Service community, and customized specifically for these attacks,\u201d the security firm said.<\/p>\n

The report pointed out that the attackers who stole the data have also found a market \u2014 offering some of the 40 million credit card numbers reported stolen in batches of between one million and four million at a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fourth quarter of 2013 will be remembered as the period when cybercrime became \u2018real\u2019 for more people than ever before,\u201d said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president for McAfee Labs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese cyber thefts occurred at a time when most people were focused on their holiday shopping and when the industry wanted people to feel secure and confident in their purchases. The impact of these attacks will be felt both at the kitchen table as well as the boardroom table.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weafer added that the attacks \u201crepresent a coming of age for both Cybercrime-as-a-Service and the \u2018Dark Web\u2019 overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cDark Web\u201d actors appear to be operating with ease, like other kinds of online businesses, McAfee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the big lesson is that we face a healthy and growing cybercrime industry which played a key role in enabling and monetizing the results of these attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: rawstory.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cybercriminals are settling into a comfortable place in the \u201cDark Web\u201d where they test, refine and distribute malware for online crimes. It sounds sinister, and it is. Big Brother is breaching your privacy, and terrorists and criminals are busy with a practice called\u00a0astroturfing\u00a0\u2014 creating the false impression that there’s huge grassroots support for some cause … Continue reading “The Dark Web”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[8600,1040,8598,8599,8601,429],"class_list":["post-13305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-astroturfing","tag-big-brother","tag-cybercriminals","tag-dark-web","tag-malware","tag-twitter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/darkweb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13307,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13305\/revisions\/13307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}