April 18, 2015
Andy Greenberg, writing on the April 17, 2015 edition of Wired.com, warns that hackers are getting new weapons for their cyber space arsenal, as a Dark Web Market is selling zero-day exploits to hackers. “Hackers for years have bought and sold their secrets in a de facto gray market for zero-day exploits — intrusion techniques for which no software patch [currently] exists. Now,” Mr. Greenberg warns, “a new [digital] marketplace hopes to formalize that digital arms trade…in setting where it could flourish: under cover of the Dark Web’s anonymity protections.”
“Over the last month,” Mr. Greenberg notes, “a dark net marketplace calling itself TheRealDealMarket has emerged; focusing on brokering hackers’zero-day attack methods. Like the Silk Road and its online black-market successors, TheRealDeal uses the anonymity software Tor and the digital currency Bitcoin — to hide the identities of its buyers, sellers, and administrators. But. while some other sites have sold only basic, low-level hacking tools, and stolen financial details, TheRealDeal’s creators say they’re looking to broker premium hacker data…like highly sought after zero-days, source code, and hacking services. In some cases, these are offered on an exclusive, one-time basis.”
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