Telegram Hosting World’s Largest Darknet Market

Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram.

The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Telegram have now grown to be bigger than ever before, according to a new analysis from the crypto tracing firm Elliptic. Despite a brief drop after Telegram banned two of the biggest such markets in early 2025, the two current top markets, known as Tudou Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee, are together enabling close to $2 billion a month in money-laundering transactions, sales of scam tools like stolen data, fake investment websites, and AI deepfake tools, as well as other...

Why TabShop Is the Perfect Point of Sale App for Food Trucks?

Running a food truck is very different from running a traditional restaurant. Space is limited, time is always tight, and every service depends on speed, reliability, and flexibility. Food truck owners need a Point of Sale system that adapts to their mobile lifestyle instead of slowing them down. This is exactly where TabShop stands out as the perfect POS app for food trucks.

TabShop is designed with mobility in mind. Instead of requiring expensive, bulky hardware, it runs directly on tablets and smartphones, allowing food truck operators to turn a simple mobile device into a fully functional POS system. This makes...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Found in Light Fixture

Probably a college prank.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras

404 Media has the story:

Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man...

BugTraq.Ru: С наступающим

Всех причастных — с неуклонно надвигающейся второй четвертью XXI века.
обсуждение | Telegram

LinkedIn Job Scams

Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world:

In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of people and offers high-paying roles. In Kenya, the recruitment industry is largely unorganized, so scamsters leverage fake personal referrals. In Mexico, bad actors capitalize on the informal nature of the job economy by advertising fake formal roles that carry a promise of security. In Nigeria, scamsters often manage to get LinkedIn users to share their login credentials with the lure of paid work, preying on their desperation amid an especially acute unemployment crisis.

These are scams...

BugTraq.Ru: libmdbx => MithrilDB

Текущее состояние и перспективы развития libmdbx:
юбилейный пост на форуме
слайды с комментариями
обсуждение | Telegram

С Новым 2026-ым как в 1992-ом

Очередной Новый Год на носу, а значит, срочно нужно придумать очередной новогодний проектик и написать про него статью. И я придумал сделать интро-поздравление для ZX Spectrum. Да не современное, поражающее невообразимыми эффектами, а напротив, в максимально классическом стиле очень ранней демосцены. Заодно это повод рассказать про особенности национальных хакерских традиций в зимний и иные периоды. Сведём же новогодние олдскулы зарядом концентрированной ностальгии!

Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds

Scammers are generating images of broken merchandise in order to apply for refunds.

PRÜF (39c3)

PRÜF! Prüfung Rettet übrigens Freiheit! Alles wird in Deutschland geprüft. Warum nicht auch mutmaßlich verfassungswidrige Parteien? Hier stelle ich vor, was PRÜF! anders machen will als bisherige Kampagnen. Wir haben eine Forderung: „Alle Parteien, die vom Verfassungsschutz als rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall oder gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft werden, sollen durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht überprüft werden.“ Wir demonstrieren so lange, bis der Bundesrat die Prüfung formal beantragt hat. PRÜF-Demos. Bald in allen Landeshauptstädten. Am 2. Samstag. Jeden Monat. Warum beim Schutz der Demokratie nicht mal einen Ansatz wählen, der so noch nicht probiert wurde? Nicht auf die anderen gucken, sondern auf uns?...