Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon. Penguin. 496 pages. Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freely accessible to the public. Help us continue this work with your...Read More
You may have heard about the so-called “dark web” as a place where drugs and guns are sold on sites like Silk Road, an illicit online drug market that was shut down by the FBI in 2013. But don’t be alarmed by the ominous-sounding moniker – the dark web is just a way to browse...Read More
‘I’d probably rather overdose’ Liam knows what he’s doing is dangerous, but he is addicted to drugs and hides his dependency from family and many of his friends. He’s so worried that people will discover his double life that he risks overdosing alone. • Calgary’s fentanyl crisis: A close look at the numbers• ‘An absolute crisis’: 42...Read More
Cybersecurity search engines are specialized platforms that supercharge threat discovery, vulnerability mapping, and intelligence gathering beyond generic search capabilities. Shodan and Censys scan billions of internet-exposed devices and services, revealing IoT/OT attack surfaces. ZoomEye dominates Chinese cyberspace reconnaissance, while BinaryEdge and GreyNoise track open ports, scanning noise, and malicious patterns. Pulsedive fuses multi-source threat intel...Read More
Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Philippines News once a month in your Inbox Over the weekend, reports spread across social media claiming that a dark web seller was offering millions of GCash user records, including eKYC information and linked bank accounts. But the country’s arguably largest mobile wallet company moved quickly to respond, saying...Read More
The dark web marketplace was active for over five years. Archetyp was one of the only platforms to allow the sale of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. The marketplace had around 17 000 listings online, and with more than 600 000 users, it is considered one of the largest of its kind. Investigations into Archetyp...Read More
When most people think of the internet, they imagine websites like Google, Facebook, YouTube, or Amazon—easy to access and searchable through common web browsers. However, this familiar part of the internet is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a vast, hidden world known as the Dark Web—a digital underworld often shrouded...Read More
Introduction Resecurity has identified the emergence of uncensored darknet AI assistants, enabling threat actors to leverage advanced data processing capabilities for malicious purposes. One of these – DIG AI – was identified on September 29 of this year and has already gained popularity among cybercriminal and organized crime circles. During Q4 2025, our HUNTER team observed...Read More
A hacker using the handle Chucky_BF is offering a batch of 15.8 million email–password pairs linked to PayPal for sale on a Dark Web marketplace. The data, said to be complete with PayPal-specific URLs across web and mobile endpoints, is being sold for just $750. According to Hackread, the data samples appear to contain...Read More
In June 2023, just seven months after OpenAI first invited curious tech fans to try a “research preview” of its now-ubiquitous ChatGPT tool, a lesser-known chatbot called WormGPT officially launched with a much different target audience: hackers. Its creator offered would-be customers access to a large language model (LLM) with no built-in guardrails — one...Read More
