AlphaBay, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces, had one big security issue, allowing hackers to view private conversations.
One researcher disclosed the existence of this particular vulnerability after testing it out and finding that he could steal over 200,000 private messages exchanged between users and sellers. AlphaBay patched things up, and the man got rewarded for choosing to disclose the problem.
Reddit user Cipher0007 warned AlphaBay admins about the flaw, but his tickets went ignored for a while. Then, he went on to demonstrate his findings to DarkNetMarkets mods on Reddit, claiming that he created a bot which helped him collect all the messages above.
AlphaBay eventually paid notice to the researcher, patched the vulnerability and paid Cipher0007, before giving an explanation.
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AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Flaw Exposes Private Messages
AlphaBay, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces, had one big security issue, allowing hackers to view private conversations. One researcher disclosed the existence of this particular vulnerability after testing it out and finding that…
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