BreachForums
Coverage of BreachForums in the Nexus archive.
- Inside the dark web: Stolen identities for 95¢, malware, and scams-for-hire
The dark web hosts both legitimate privacy tools and a thriving criminal ecosystem, including underground forums, marketplaces for stolen data, and scams. Cybercriminals operate globally through platforms like WWH, Dark Forums, and BreachForums, while link boards help users navigate the network.
- A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale
A hacker group called TeamPCP has breached GitHub through a poisoned VSCode extension installed by a developer, compromising approximately 3,800-4,000 repositories containing GitHub's internal source code. The attack represents an escalation in software supply chain attacks, with TeamPCP now conducting such breaches on a near-weekly basis and extorting victims. The group is attempting to sell GitHub's source code and internal organization data on BreachForums.