312 Dormant Silk Road Wallets Spring Back to Life

The 176 transactions over 12 hours suggest either someone methodically testing wallet access or an automated sweep consolidating legacy addresses into modern bech32 format.

Tor Browser 15.0.3: NoScript Goes Independent

The Tor Project now hosts its own NoScript builds, versioned with ".1984" suffixes to mark independence from Mozilla's Add-ons infrastructure.

Omerta Market Lasted 15 Days Before IP Leak Exposure

A darknet market that claimed two years of development leaked its server IP within approximately two weeks of launch.

SimpleX Chat's X Account Hijacked for Crypto Scam

Hackers blocked the company founder from his own brand's account while promoting wallet-draining scam links.

Prison for the competition, settlements for the connected

Federal prosecutors celebrate busting consensual drug sales while pharmaceutical executives who created the opioid epidemic face zero prison time.

The CSAM Buyer Who Ran Bohemia's 12 Million Euro Drug Empire

The architect behind 67,000 monthly drug transactions and 12 million euros in peak revenue also maintained a collection of child abuse images he purchased with cryptocurrency.

Session Group Encryption: Sealed Sender Without PFS Tradeoffs

Session trades Perfect Forward Secrecy for metadata minimization, routing encrypted messages through three-hop onion paths to protect sender and recipient identities from network observers.

Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns

Europol recently announced the seizure of 25 million euros in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency mixer Cryptomixer.io.

Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits

After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.

Monero Wallet Scanning: How View Tags Cut Sync Time

View tags reduce Monero wallet scanning time by skipping 99.6% of expensive elliptic curve operations using 1-byte matching.

Microsoft Builds Location Tracking Into Teams

Microsoft's newest Teams feature automatically reports your physical location to management whenever you connect to corporate Wi-Fi, turning your laptop into a compliance verification device.

The EU is Destroying Privacy

The EU just approved a negotiating mandate for Chat Control - mass scanning of encrypted communications. Articles 1 and 7 explicitly exempt police, military, intelligence, and EU officials from the scanning. Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private. Sixty percent of child abuse material worldwide is hosted on EU servers.