HKDF
HKDF key derivation provides cryptographically secure key generation through extract-and-expand methodology that concentrates entropy while addressing salt reuse vulnerabilities.
tor browser
Tor Browser 14.5.8 shipped with critical security fixes backported from Firefox 144, plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure. The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.
odysee
Odysee spent 2023-2024 migrating blockchains and building AI trading bots yet somehow couldn't spare a weekend to integrate Monero payment support that darknet markets implemented in a week back in 2019.
Monero
MyMonero's shutdown of there wallet forces thousands of users off a surveillance architecture where keys lived on central servers, an upgrade whether they wanted it or not.
distro
openSUSE Leap 16 defaults to NSA-developed SELinux, eliminates X11 for Wayland-only operation, ships web management on all interfaces, and uses a remote installer with documented mDNS attack risks.
News
State intelligence agencies maintain RATs functionally identical to XWorm, proving that control depends on who holds the keyboard.
News
Attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite by hiding malicious code within seemingly harmless calendar invitation (.ICS) files to bypass security defenses and gain access to corporate networks.
Darknet & Darkweb News, OpSec, OSINT and More
Nextcloud Talk deployment enables enterprise-grade self-hosted video calling through sophisticated WebRTC implementation, TURN/STUN server configuration, and privacy-preserving communication.
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KDE Linux marks the desktop environment team's first official operating system release, breaking away from three decades of dependence on third-party Linux distributors.
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020, the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
Kali Linux 2025.3 delivers native wireless injection capabilities to Raspberry Pi devices and adds 10 new offensive security tools. The standout feature removes the need for external USB adapters when conducting wireless assessments on ARM hardware.
A dying cancer patient lost $32,000 in medical funds when Steam-hosted malware drained his crypto wallet during a live broadcast.
The Tor Project's new Android VPN application fundamentally restructures mobile anonymity through per-app circuit isolation, making commercial VPN trust assumptions obsolete while providing automatic censorship circumvention that adapts faster than authoritarian blocking attempts.
OnionMasq creates VPN-like behavior by trapping applications in kernel-isolated sandboxes where only Tor-routed network interfaces exist, eliminating the bypass vulnerabilities that plague proxy-based solutions.
While Bitcoin stops at 8 decimal places, Monero goes to 12, a design choice that exposes who's actually thinking about money's future versus who's building digital gold for hodlers.
German and Dutch authorities demonstrated how postal metadata, cryptocurrency analysis, and international surveillance cooperation can penetrate darknet anonymity tools in a multi-million euro drug case.
Update/correction: On September 16, 2025, the Justice Department announced that Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka “Pompompurin”) was resentenced to three years in federal prison.
Signal just rolled out centralized backups, and the guy who announced it has quite the resume. Jim O'Leary, Signal's VP of Engineering since 2019, spent the previous eight years building surveillance infrastructure at Twitter and Facebook.
Brave Browser handles 94 million users monthly with zero dependency on Google or Microsoft servers, and Big Tech should be terrified of what this proves.