Quick Report: Credit Cards Sold on the Dark Web in 2021
The dark web is home to a vast amount of illicit markets and shops. Although there’s a variety of goods to be purchased on the dark web, one of the most sold resources by volume on the dark web, if not the most sold commodity, is stolen credit cards. Just last week, the largest carding […]
Your Data Has Been Leaked: Do Users Care About Data Leaks?
Data leaks and data breaches can come from anywhere. Data leaks can occur when an employee mistakenly leaves an API key on Github, or when a third party gives the public access to your proprietary information due to a permissions issue, or when a user clicks on a phishing link and gives their personal information […]
Flare’s Insights on Major Cyber Trends From 2021
2020 and 2021 have seen dramatic changes in the way we do business and in turn, the way we protect those businesses and people. Cybersecurity is a fast changing industry where some trends stay, while others simmer out. However, let’s discuss three topics that have been trends or major events for 2021 and will surely […]
ToRReZ Market Shutting Down
Two months after White House Market’s retirement, comes another surprise; ToRReZ, currently the second largest market by the total number of listings, has announced they will be shutting down. After close to two years of operation, on December 17th, 2021, purchasing will be officially disabled as well as a few other essential market functions. ToRReZ […]
White House Market Is Officially Retiring
Updated: November 26th, 2021 As the article below is a bit out of date, here’s a breakdown of most of the large changes in the dark web marketplace scene: Empire Market exit scammed in August 2020 DarkMarket was sized in January 2021 Yellow Brick exited a few days after DarkMarket BigBlue was seized by Interpol in April […]
Dark Web vs. Deep Web Monitoring: What Security Teams Need to Know
This article was updated on August 18, 2025 with updated information While both the dark and deep web represent parts of the internet that fall outside the scope of traditional search engines, they differ in accessibility, use cases, and the types of threats they expose. Understanding these differences, and implementing monitoring across both, is essential […]
Slilpp Users Scammed Following Darknet Market Takedown
The US Department of Justice has taken down Slilpp, following an international collaboration between different law enforcement agencies. Slilpp emerged in 2012 and was one of the largest marketplaces for stolen credentials. According to specialized media, the FBI seized the website and placed a warning on the website. Although it has only recently been publicized […]
Cancel Culture Reaches the Criminal Underground
In our ransomware report from late 2020, we explained how some ransomware groups were offering their services to others. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has become popular and generated much discussion on the criminal underground. It represents an easy and accessible way for malicious actors to earn a few dollars. In our report, we mentioned that ransomware groups […]
0-Day No Longer Best Kept Secrets On The Internet
A 0-day is a software vulnerability that is unknown to its software maker. 0-days are perhaps the most valuable type of exploits out there simply because they can be used with an incredibly high chance of success, and often for an extended period of time. With no knowledge of a flaw, a software maker is […]
Malicious Actors Show Increased Interest in Information Theft
The evolution of malicious actors over the last four decades has shown that greed is greatly responsible for most of the cybersecurity incidents we keep witnessing. While in the 1980s virus authors sought to experiment, and erase data, the same breed of malicious actors now seek, in many cases, mostly one thing: information. Credential Stealing […]
