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Europol Shuts Down Two Major Illegal 'Dark Web' Trading Platforms
May 03, 2019**Credit to Wang Wei (THN)**
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Europol announced the shut down of two prolific dark web marketplaces—Wall Street Market and Silkkitie (also known as Valhalla)—in simultaneous global operations against underground websites for trading drugs, stolen credit card numbers, malicious software, and other illegal goods.

Police in western Germany has also arrested three men who were allegedly running Wall Street Market, the world's second largest dark marketplace with more than a million users and 5,400 vendors.

Besides this, the operation involving Europol, Dutch police and the FBI also led to the arrests of two major suppliers of narcotics via the Wall Street Market site in Los Angeles, the United States.

According to the Europol, the police officers seized the computers used to run the illegal market place, along with more than €550 000 (£472,000 or $621,000) in cash, more than €1 Million in Bitcoin and Monero cryptocurrencies, expensive cars, and other evidence.
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In a press release published today, Europol also revealed that Finnish authorities shut down the Silkkitie marketplace earlier this year, which was operating since 2013 on The Onion Router (Tor) network and was "one of the oldest and internationally best-known Tor trade sites."

Based on the findings of the investigation, Finnish Customs also seized a significant amount of Bitcoin, following the shut down of Silkkitie, known as the Valhalla Marketplace.

"After the Silkkitie (Valhalla) site was shut down by the authorities, some of the Finnish narcotics traders moved their activities to other illegal trade sites in the Tor network, such as Wall Street Market," Europol says.

According to the press release, over 63,000 sales offers were placed on the Wall Street Market most recently, and over 1.1 million customer accounts and more than 5,400 sellers were registered. The site's administrators charged 2 to 6% commission on sales.

The Department of justice today charged the three men arrested in Germany with two felony counts—conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and distribution, and conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

According to the DoJ, the Wall Street Market administrators allegedly conducted an "exit scam" last month when they took all of the virtual currency held in marketplace—believed by investigators to be approximately $11 million—and then transferred it to their own accounts.

The operation was conducted in cooperation with German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt), the Dutch National Police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust, and various US government agencies, including Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Homeland Security, US Postal Inspection Service, and the US Department of Justice.
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DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Critical Flaws Within 15 Days
May 01, 2019**Credit to Mohit Kumar**
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In recent years, we have seen how hackers prey on those too lazy or ignorant to install security patches, which, if applied on time, would have prevented some devastating cyber attacks and data breaches that happened in major organisations.

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has ordered government agencies to more swiftly plug the critical security vulnerabilities found on their networks within 15 calendar days since the initial detection, a reduction from 30 days.

DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week issued a new Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 19-02 instructing federal agencies and departments to address "critical" rated vulnerabilities within 15 days and "high" severity flaws within 30 days of initial detection.

The countdown to patch a security vulnerability will start when it was initially detected during CISA's weekly Cyber Hygiene vulnerability scanning, rather than it was the first report to the affected agencies.

"As federal agencies continue to expand their Internet presence through increased deployment of Internet-accessible systems, and operate interconnected and complex systems, it is more critical than ever for federal agencies to rapidly remediate vulnerabilities that otherwise could allow malicious actors to compromise federal networks through exploitable, externally-facing systems," reads the memo from CISA Director Chris Krebs.

"Recent reports from government and industry partners indicate that the average time between discovery and exploitation of a vulnerability is decreasing as today’s adversaries are more skilled, persistent, and able to exploit known vulnerabilities."

Therefore, to minimize the risk of unauthorized access to any federal information internal system and reduce the overall attack surface, the CISA wants government agencies to review and remediate critical vulnerabilities on Internet-facing systems before hackers and cybercriminals exploit them.

The recently created CISA agency provides regular reports to the federal agencies on Cyber Hygiene scanning results and current status, informing them of the detected vulnerabilities, classified based on their CVSSv2 score.

Agencies who do not complete their remediation within the allotted time period, CISA will send an additional reminder to agencies, asking them to submit the complete remediation plan within three working days to CISA.

BOD 19-02 replaces BOD 15-01—Critical Vulnerability Mitigation Requirement for Federal Civilian Executive Branch Departments and Agencies' Internet-Accessible Systems (May 21, 2015)—which gave federal agencies 30 days to patch critical vulnerabilities.

This is the second BOD that CISA has released this year. Following a series of DNS hijacking incidents, the agency issued an "emergency directive" earlier this year, ordering federal agencies to audit DNS records for their respective website domains and other agency-managed domains within 10 days.

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