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‘Disable iMessage ASAP’—‘High-Risk’ Alert Issued Over ‘Credible’ iPhone Dark Web Exploit

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Trust Wallet, a crypto wallet owned by the crypto exchange Binance, has issued a warning that hackers may be targeting iPhone’s iMessage.

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The so-called “zero-day” exploit could allow attackers to steal users information, messages and cryptocurrency—though the exploit itself could be a scam.

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“We have credible intel regarding a high-risk, zero-day exploit targeting iMessage on the dark web,” Trust Wallet’s X account posted. “This can infiltrate your iPhone without clicking any link. High-value targets are likely. Each use raises detection risk.”

So-called zero-day exploits mean the developer, in this case Apple, has no time to fix the vulnerability.

Trust Wallet recommended users take “action to guard against this iMessage exploit,” advising people to “disable iMessage ASAP until Apple patches this.”

However, the hacking software is being sold on a dark web site called CodeBreach Lab for $2 million worth of bitcoin. There is no evidence that it works or that anyone has bought it, as TechCrunch pointed out.

“Threat intel detected an iOS iMessage zero-day exploit for sale in the dark web,” Trust Wallet’s chief executive Eowyn Chen posted to X.

“It is a zero-click exploit to take over control of the phone via iMessages. Its asking price is $2 million. This would make sense for very high value individual targets, as more the zero-day is used, more likely it is caught in the wild by…

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AT&T data breach: Millions of customers caught up in major dark web leak

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Is the IDF weaponizing blockchain? Are cartels paying ransomware on the dark web? #hearsay

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Welcome to #hearsay, Dorian Batycka’s weekly crypto gossip column. This week’s edition brings you a small dose of dark web cartels, a potential blockchain interface for the Israel Defense Force (IDF), and one NFT collector’s hilarious flex fail.

Every week, crypto.news brings you #hashtag hearsay, a gossip column of scoops and stories shaping the crypto world. If you have a tip, email Dorian Batycka at [email protected]

Question: what if Sam Bankman was actually fried?

That’s the thought that immediately sprang to mind when I learned about a recent exit scam involving one of the world’s largest darknet vendors of illegal drugs.

On March 5, users of the site Incognito Marketplace, a site like Reddit where buyers and sellers can get everything from a gram of weed to kilos of coke, were awakened to a message from one of its administrators, an admin known as Pharaoh.

The message read:

We have accumulated a list of private messages, transaction info and order details over the years. You’ll be surprised at the number of people that relied on our auto-encrypt functionality. And by the way, your messages and transaction IDs were never actually deleted after the expiry.

Anyway, if anything were to leak to law enforcement, I guess nobody never slipped up. We’ll be publishing the entire dump of 557k orders and 862k crypto transaction IDs at the end of May… whether or not you and your customers’ info is on that list is totally up to you. Yes, this is an extortion.

Pharaoh, Incognito Marketplace admin

Holding the site’s BTC and Monero (XMR), Pharaoh stated that vendors on the site would be asked to pay large ransoms, lest they have their data leaked online.

What’s more, Pharaoh also revealed that the “auto-encrypt” button, made available to vendors on the darknet marketplace, actually exposed them to a data breach.

Worries about the Incognito Marketplace began to circulate the week before when users were unable to withdraw BTC and Monero (a privacy-focused cryptocurrency) from the platform.

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Roku Has More than 15,000 User Accounts Hacked, Stolen Data Sold for 50 Cents Per Customer on the Dark Web

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Hackers have stolen personal data, including credit-card authentication credentials, of 15,363 Roku users, with individual user account data selling for just 50 cents each on the Dark Web. 

Some Roku users were locked out of their accounts, with data thieves coopting them to make nefarious in-app purchases. 

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