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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Dark Web

The machines used to send millions of text messages a day offering drugs in a Channel 12 news report broadcast on July 22, 2022. (Screengrab/Israel Police via Channel 12)
July 23, 2022, 11:28 am
Police bust operation sending 5-6 million text messages a day selling illegal drugs
Machines operated in Bnei Brak by ex-IDF tech unit officer, but cops believe criminal gang behind enterprise; law enforcement admits taking machines offline won’t solve wider issue
By ToI Staff
An illustrative image of cyber crime, the dark net, dark web and compuer hackers (Tick-Tock; iStock by Getty Images)
January 13, 2021, 3:42 pm
Dark net vendors tout likely fake COVID-19 vaccines as prices soar – researchers
No way of knowing illicit vaccines are genuine, even as demand spikes; Check Point snoops bought a $750 ‘Chinese vaccine’ that never showed up, seller account disappeared
By Shoshanna Solomon
Gal Vallerius (Twitter)
October 10, 2018, 3:26 am
‘OxyMonster’: French-Israeli drug dealer in US beard contest gets 20 years
Gal Vallerius pled guilty in June to drug conspiracy and money laundering
By Curt Anderson
A general view of the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. US Federal Courthouse as seen in Miami, Florida on June 12, 2018. (RHONA WISE/AFP)
June 12, 2018, 8:49 pm
French-Israeli man in US beard contest pleads guilty in drug case
Gal Vallerius addresses Miami court in Hebrew as he confesses to being an online international narcotics kingpin
By Agencies
A Jewish Israeli teen is brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on suspicion of issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US and around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)
April 30, 2018, 1:42 pm
Teen behind JCC threats suspected of making hoax bomb warnings from jail
Police receive over 100 fake announcements of explosives in schools in Tel Aviv and Kfar Saba, leading to evacuations and extensive searches
By ToI Staff
The suspect brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, under suspicion of Issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)
March 1, 2018, 8:05 am
US issues fresh indictments against Israeli-American teen over bomb threats
Justice Department charges Ashkelon teenager with hate crimes, cyberstalking in Florida, Georgia, Washington
By ToI Staff
A coded letter written by a 17th-century Italian nun, who claimed it had been dictated to her by the Devil. (Wikimedia Commons)
September 9, 2017, 7:51 am
17th-century nun’s ‘letter from the Devil’ finally decoded
341 years later, researchers in Sicily turn to the Dark Web for a program to decipher mystery text
By ToI Staff
The Daily Stormer (Screen capture: YouTube)
August 15, 2017, 11:35 pm
Forced offline, Daily Stormer heads to the dark web
Neo-Nazi site banished to far corners of the internet after drawing fire for calling Virginia car ramming victim a ‘slut’
By JTA
An Israeli-American teenager, accused of making bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, in a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)
August 8, 2017, 10:31 pm
JCC bomb threats suspect offered his services on dark net – court docs
Israeli-American teen allegedly posted on illicit online marketplace advertising ‘school email bomb threat service’
By SADIE GURMAN
At White-Hat's offices in Tel Aviv, a white hat faces a Gur Fawkes mask of the type favored by the hacker group called Anonymous (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
June 1, 2017, 2:50 pm
White-Hat’s hackers trawl the dark web in hunt for criminals
Tel Aviv-based startup staffed by former members of IDF intelligence units, who set up false identities and infiltrate black hat groups to foil cyber-attacks
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: Staff monitoring the spread of ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency (KISA) in Seoul, May 15, 2017. (AFP/ YONHAP)
May 23, 2017, 5:01 pm
After ransomware attack, focus turns to backup and prevention services
Cybersecurity experts say the best way to counter an infection is to be prepared and have backup systems in place
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative photo of a guard in an Israeli prison (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
February 26, 2017, 4:50 pm
Israeli paid Colombians to film violent child pornography — court
Employee of defense services charged with possessing thousands of sexual videos, some involving kids and infants
By Judah Ari Gross
Participants at CyberTech 2016 Conference (Courtesy: Gilad Kavalerchik)
January 31, 2017, 4:36 pm
Countries must collude on dark web terror, expert says
Cybercriminals worldwide are seen stepping up their game and creating more devastating cybercrimes
By Shoshanna Solomon
Masked crypto-anarchists speak to Yuval Orr in a scene from 'Down the Deep, Dark Web' (Courtesy)
July 16, 2016, 5:51 pm
Who’s afraid of the deep, dark web?
In a new documentary, Israeli filmmakers explore the dangerous, bizarre and hair-raising world of the anonymous Internet
By Simona Weinglass
A soldier in the army's cyber defense course on June 10, 2013 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
October 14, 2015, 1:10 pm
Is the Internet key to stopping attacks?
The latest wave of terrorism in Israel is different from previous ones in that it is planned, inspired, glorified and spread through social networks. Can it be stopped online as well?
By Simona Weinglass
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