short, practical notes about not getting phished. no fear mongering, just the checklist.
Compromised maintainer accounts pushed malicious crate versions whose build scripts ran malware at compile time, while trojanized npm packages delivered an AI-assisted Linux backdoor. Here is how these attacks work and why lockfiles matter.
The Android banking trojan ToxicPanda has been updated with 167 remote commands, overlay phishing for 349 financial apps, and a VPN-service trick that cuts victims off from Google Play while it works.
Researchers showed that a man-in-the-middle relay can rewrite the expiry date a POS terminal reads from an expired Visa card, reviving dead plastic for real purchases. We explain the mechanics, why the carding scene noticed, and where the attack stops.
An onion address is not a name - it is a public key. One wrong character puts you on a stranger's server. Here is how researchers and operators say to verify it.
Fake law enforcement seizure banners power exit scams and phishing kits. Inside the AlphV hoax, the anatomy of cloned takedown pages, and the checks that expose a staged raid.
In 2015 the FBI ran the Playpen dark web site for 13 days and unmasked over 1,000 visitors with a browser exploit. Here is how the NIT worked.
A practical walkthrough of PGP signature verification: install GnuPG, import and check keys, verify detached and clearsigned messages, and avoid common beginner mistakes.
Fake mirrors steal logins and deposits because they exploit urgency, brand trust, and poisoned link lists. Here is how the trick works and which habits defeat it.
Clipboard hijackers watch for copied crypto addresses and swap them in milliseconds. Why glancing at the first and last characters is no longer enough.
Address poisoning seeds your transaction history with lookalike wallet addresses and waits for one careless copy-paste. How the scam works, what victims lost, and why saved address books win.
Change a single character in a .onion address and Tor connects you to a completely different server. We review documented lookalike campaigns and the verification habits that hold up.
A padlock on an .onion site means something different than on the clearnet. We look at what TLS adds to onion services, and what Tor already does without it.
