Articles by Muhammad Anas

Muhammad Anas

Muhammad Anas

Anas tracks the hidden corners of the internet so you don’t have to, delivering daily news on cybercrime, leaks, and online threats. At DarkWebDecoded.com, he turns breaking developments into straightforward, reliable updates.

South Korea Is Building a 700-Billion-Parameter AI Trained on Dark Web Data
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South Korea Is Building a 700-Billion-Parameter AI Trained on Dark Web Data. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has selected a 33-organisation consortium, led by Naver Cloud, to develop a 700…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 15, 2026
11 min read
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She Paid $1,400 on a Dark Web Hitman Site to Have Her Ex-Husband Killed. He’s Alive. She’s Under Arrest.

A 45-year-old woman was arrested in Rotterdam on September 12, 2026, suspected of involvement in ordering a contract killing via…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 15, 2026
11 min read
Twitch Data Leak: 40,000 Streamers Had Data Listed for Sale. A Browser Extension Was the Likely Culprit.
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Twitch Data Leak: 40,000 Streamers Had Data Listed for Sale. A Browser Extension Was the Likely Culprit.

On September 9, 2026, a threat actor listed a database of approximately 40,000 Twitch streamer records for sale on a…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 15, 2026
10 min read
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Synthetic Identity Fraud: A Fake Person That Passes Bank Checks Costs $200

Somewhere on a dark web marketplace right now, you can buy a complete human identity for $200. It doesn’t belong…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 14, 2026
11 min read
Seven Chinese AI Labs Stole 190 Million Claude Exchanges. Here's How They Did It.
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Claude Distillation Attacks: Seven Chinese AI Labs Stole 190M Exchanges

Between May and July 2026, accounts linked to Alibaba’s AI division generated more than three million conversations with Anthropic’s Claude…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 14, 2026
11 min read
Greenberg Traurig Data Breach
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Greenberg Traurig Data Breach: One Law Firm Hit. Six in Three Weeks. Here’s the Real Story.

Greenberg Traurig confirmed a data breach to Vermont’s Attorney General on September 8, 2026. A ransomware group called SilentRansomGroup had…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 12, 2026
10 min read
Operation Alice dark web
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Operation Alice: One Person Was Running 373,000 Dark Web Sites. Every Customer Is Now a Suspect.

Between March 9 and March 19, 2026, law enforcement agencies from 23 countries quietly dismantled one of the largest networks…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 10, 2026
10 min read
Bank of Baroda Data Breach
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Bank of Baroda Data Breach: Why TripleX Released 1TB for Free And Why That’s the Whole Story

When a ransomware group steals data, the usual move is to demand payment. Hand over the money, or the data…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 10, 2026
10 min read
How Threat Actors Vet Stolen Credit Card Shops
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Carding Shops Explained: How the Stolen Credit Card Economy Actually Works

There’s a document circulating on underground forums right now with a title that sounds like a Reddit post written by…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 9, 2026
12 min read
Substack Data Breach
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Substack Data Breach: 663,000 Accounts Were Exposed for Four Months Before Anyone Noticed

In October 2025, someone got into Substack’s systems and quietly pulled out data on hundreds of thousands of users. Emails.…

Muhammad Anas
Sep 8, 2026
10 min read