I dodged scam and spam emails in my inbox for years, but after generative AI’s rise created a new wave of sophisticated scams, I had to close the first Gmail account I ever created. My inbox had become a minefield of phishing links and malware-laden attachments. To make myself feel better, I decided to find...Read More

The Union government on Thursday (June 18, 2026) submitted before the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform Telegram has evolved into the “new dark web”, arguing that its architecture and privacy features have made it a preferred tool for cybercriminals, fraud networks, extremist and terror groups, and operators involved in examination paper leaks. The...Read More

The Delhi high court had issued a notice to the Centre regarding Telegram’s challenge to a temporary blocking order (File photo) NEW DELHI: The central government Thursday told the Delhi high court that social media platform Telegram has now become a “new dark web” making it hard for the authorities to “track and attribute” criminals.In...Read More

The Union government claimed before the Delhi High Court on Thursday that messaging platform Telegram was becoming the “new dark web”, enabling illegal activities and linking criminals, Bar and Bench reported. “Criminals have rapidly adopted Telegram to post links on channels that connect to dark web forums through deep web links, making it hard for...Read More

Telegram has become the new dark web and due to its privacy features, the platform is being exploited for illegal activities including terrorism and child exploitation, the Government of India told the Delhi High Court on Thursday as it defended the temporary ban ahead of the June 21 NEET-UG re-examination. The Centre made the submissions...Read More

Investigators were knocking on the door of a disgraced Sydney childcare worker within a week of him posting images of children on the darknet after identifying the user through metadata and CCTV, court documents have revealed. David William James, who is awaiting sentence next month, has told a judge in a handwritten letter that he...Read More

You’d think NordVPN’s financial department has made a grave mistake. Offering NordVPN with Dark Web Monitor for ID theft protection at $3 sounds crazy. But there we are: it’s true, and people are obsessing with it. Days are left before NordVPN realizes what it actually did, so there’s little time to decide. But since you’re...Read More

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — A Michigan man has been sentenced to five years in prison followed by two years of supervised release for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen says Andrew Shenkosky, 30, was involved in purchasing nearly 2,500 stolen login credentials from a dark web marketplace and using them for...Read More

Dark web sites are websites hosted on encrypted networks, primarily the Tor network, that are invisible to standard browsers and unindexed by conventional search engines. Accessing any dark website requires specialized software such as the Tor Browser, which anonymizes traffic by routing it through multiple layers of encryption before reaching its destination. Not all dark...Read More

A man from the far south coast is under house arrest after being granted bail to fight charges over his alleged access to $5.7 million worth of bitcoin gained from illegal activity on the dark web. Jamie Lawrence Powrie was arrested on May 27, 2025 and charged with dealing with property of the proceeds of...Read More