Articles by Hanna Reinhardt

Hanna Reinhardt

Hanna Reinhardt

I'm Hanna, a security consultant based in Berlin with more than twelve years of experience across offensive and defensive security. I started out on a blue team chasing alerts at 3 a.m., moved into red teaming because I wanted to understand the other side of the console, and now run an independent practice advising companies on threat intelligence, penetration testing, incident response planning, and security architecture.

Wireframe chat marketplace stamped "SEIZED" beside frozen crypto wallets, illustrating the Xinbi Guarantee takedown and $52.8M freeze.
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Xinbi Guarantee Seized – Inside the $24B Telegram Scam Marketplace

If you ask the average person where the largest criminal marketplaces on the internet are located, they’ll say the dark…

Hanna Reinhardt
Sep 10, 2026
10 min read
Glowing chain of crypto wallet nodes traced by a magnifying glass over a map of India, illustrating India's Darknet-Crypto Cell following drug money on the dark web
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Inside India’s New Darknet Crypto Cell – What It Does and Why It Exists

India has established a special unit for tracking drug money on the dark web. On September 6, 2026, the Union…

Hanna Reinhardt
Sep 10, 2026
7 min read
Overhead view of nine cars in a parking grid, two glowing red and emitting signal lines to each other, illustrating infected car head units enrolled in the BADBOX proxy botnet.
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Your Car Is Now Someone Else’s Proxy Server – First Malware Built for Head Units

Someone is using your car’s internet connection. Not your phone or your router, but the touchscreen in your dashboard. Kaspersky…

Hanna Reinhardt
Aug 22, 2026
6 min read
Diagram-style illustration showing a full infostealer log stripped down to three fields of URL, login and password.
Data Breaches

ULP Dump Explained – What 4 Million Leaked Logins Actually Contain

This week a 309 MB text file was uploaded to an underground forum, the file contains 3,919,216 lines of login…

Hanna Reinhardt
Aug 22, 2026
9 min read
Two differently coloured hands reaching for a stolen data folder, both belonging to the same hooded figure, showing one affiliate running two extortion channels
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Ransom Busters Scam – A Ransomware Affiliate Robbing Its Own Gang

“Ransom Busters” claims to be a vigilante crew that raids criminal servers. GuidePoint says it’s an insider skimming ransom money…

Hanna Reinhardt
Aug 19, 2026
6 min read
North Korean hackers using fake Zoom meetings to target crypto wallets, shown as a hooded figure amid fraudulent call windows
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North Korean Hackers Are Booking Fake Zoom Calls to Drain Crypto Wallets

Security firm JUMPSEC has detailed a phishing operation it links to BlueNoroff, a North Korean threat group, that goes after…

Hanna Reinhardt
Jul 26, 2026
4 min read
Silhouette of a hooded figure at a laptop in a dark neon-lit room, with chat bubbles and data streaming out from the screen and a white heart icon in the foreground.
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MyLovelyAI Data Leak Creates a New Wave of Sextortion Threats

In early April 2026, a breach surfaced at the AI girlfriend and NSFW art-generating platform MyLovely.AI. It wasn’t a major…

Hanna Reinhardt
Apr 12, 2026
6 min read
Dark digital illustration of a terminal window filled with green code, with a translucent robotic hand reaching through it toward glowing server racks, and the name 'VoidLink' overlaid in green.
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VoidLink Malware- 1 developer, 1 AI agent, and 88,000 Lines

Security researchers have been waiting to see a serious piece of malware built with help from a large language model…

Hanna Reinhardt
Apr 11, 2026
7 min read
The Synergy logo — lowercase white wordmark with an orange crescent and starburst — on a black background, with the word 'hacked' beneath it.
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Synergy Data Breach – 900,000 Records Claimed

Update — 3 August 2026: More detail has emerged since this piece was first published. The listing indexed by Daily Dark…

Hanna Reinhardt
Apr 11, 2026
5 min read