Dark Internet

Corinne Gray is a woman whose life is falling apart. When probationary detective Kyle Nazarian unexpectedly knocks on her door on a rainy morning, she knows why. He wants to talk about her son, Ben. This is her chance to finally explain how her sweet-natured child – who loved history and dreamed of swimming for Olympic Gold – grew up to do the unthinkable. What really happened to Ben? And could anyone have prevented it?

A riveting account of major ransomware attacks and their devastating consequences, revealing how exposed we really are—and how we can protect ourselves. Imagine opening your computer only to find every document and every program locked. All you can see is a red screen with a countdown timer...

Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories Terrifying Tales from the "Fiction by Mark Watson" Substack Step into the heart of internet horror with Creepypasta: Volume One – The First Fifty Stories, an anthology featuring the first 50 chilling tales submitted to the viral Fiction by Mark Watson Substack. These aren’t just stories, they’re warnings. Whispers. Glitches in the veil between what we imagine and what waits in the dark. These stories are unearthed from inboxes, shaped in sleep paralysis, and shared with trembling hands. Whether you're a fan of Creepypasta lore or ...

Before it had a name, it was a single post on Usenet in 1998, an account of two children with eyes like empty sockets, written by a man who had no idea he was starting something. Decades later, that same impulse, ordinary people telling each other stories no one could quite prove or disprove, had produced Slender Man, the SCP Foundation, Jeff the Killer, and an entire genre of internet-born horror consumed by hundreds of millions of readers, viewers, and listeners worldwide. CREEPYPASTA: The Dark History of Internet Horror is the first full account of how that genre actually happened. It ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Ply is majestic. A cracked mirror world, a lot like ours; peopled by survivors, a lot like us; sentences so fine they break the skin; a plot that swerves through loss, love, trust, betrayal, art, science, society and control." —David Mitchell “A testament to the...

Most people have heard of the dark web. Almost nobody understands what it actually is. The dark web started as a US Navy project to protect intelligence communications. It became a tool for dissidents and journalists. Then it became the backbone of the most sophisticated criminal marketplace the world had ever seen. Today it is all of these things simultaneously. This book tells the full story — not the sensationalized version, not the libertarian fantasy, but the reality. What you will learn: What the dark web actually is — and why most statistics about it are wrong How Tor works, who ...

Ever hear of the "Dark Web"? If so, you may think it sounds rather mysterious, maybe even ominous. If that's what you think, your instincts are right — and the Dark Web now has tens of thousands of websites and many millions of daily users. What are all those people doing on the Dark Web? Well, some people just feel strongly about their privacy and prefer to hang out where they can't be tracked and watched by anyone. Even Facebook has a website on the Dark Web where they don't keep logs on user activity. That's what the Dark Web is all about — PRIVACY! Everyone from activists, ...

“Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides us through complex technical arcana and some stubborn ethical questions. . . . Dark Mirror would be simply pleasurable to read if the story it told didn’t...

What is the dark web — really? Not the Hollywood version. Not the breathless news story about criminal markets and shadowy hackers. The real dark web: how it works, who uses it, why it exists, and what it means for privacy, journalism, law enforcement, and the future of the internet. Dark Web for Beginners is the clearest, most complete guide available for anyone who wants to understand the hidden internet without a computer science degree. Criminologist and investigative journalist Francesco Paolo Esposito cuts through a decade of myth-making to deliver an evidence-based, technically ...

Coming to Fate Island was supposed to be a new start. But wolf shifter Damian Winter doesn't believe he has the right to begin again. He may look like a young man, but he is over a hundred years old. Cursed to roam the frozen tundra as a wolf for 27 days of the month, he's barely aged. Despite the potion that now allows him to remain human, Damian believes his time has passed. Supermodel Venus Jacobson needed a break from the glitz and glamor of her profession, so she booked a fashion shoot in Alaska against her mother's wishes. Venus has been all over the world, but the little town of ...

"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading." —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it. It’s a signal paradox of...

Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations) “Part John le...

A missing-persons case turns deadly when influencers enter the Louisiana bayou in this thriller from the Edgar Award–nominated author of On a Quiet Street. Some disappearances are tragedies. Others are warnings. Macy and Ethan built their careers pursuing the unknown, turning their YouTube...

There's the world wide web - the internet we all know that connects us via news, email, forums, shopping, and social media. Then there's the dark web - the parallel internet accessed by only a select few. Eileen Ormsby has spent the past five years exploring every corner of the dark web. She has shopped on darknet markets, contributed to forums, waited in red rooms, and been threatened by hitmen on murder-for-hire sites. 

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the Internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the Internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes - and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.

Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan. WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 The instant New York Times bestseller A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year 'A terrifying exposé' The Times 'Part...

ONCE SHE PLACES HER DISC ON YOUR FOREHEAD, SHE WILL COPY ALL YOUR PERSONAL DATA, LEARN YOUR SECRETS – AND THEN YOU BECOME HER SEX SLAVE! Ivy and her boyfriend Logan purchase discs from the Dark Web that can copy a person’s personal data from their minds. All the places where he or she have money, along with their passwords, are stored on the device, enabling them to gradually siphon their funds. Those who wear their discs don’t challenge their theft because they become sexually submissive to them. Ivy poses as a maid at a fancy Chicago hotel, while Logan works as an in-demand masseuse...

The brand-new addictive thriller, narrated by Nicola Walker! 'I raced through this story, constantly looking for excuses to plug in my earphones and cut myself off from the real world to enjoy Louise Candlish’s always enthralling fictional one' Reader Review ★★★★★ 'I was well and...

Surprise, you’re dead! This hilarious and moving novel follows a couple forced into unthinkable challenges when, after dying in a plane crash, they find themselves in the lowest tier of heaven, filled with laughter and dread, fear and acceptance, and family bonds even death can't break...

Before Netflix. Before Spotify. Before streaming changed everything — there was The Pirate Bay. In the early 2000s, a small group of Swedish hackers built a website that the most powerful entertainment industry in the world couldn't kill. Police raids. Criminal trials. International manhunts. Hollywood's best lawyers. None of it worked. Every time the system tried to shut them down, they came back stronger. The Pirate Who Tried to Make the Internet Free tells the full story — from the wild early days of Napster and burned CDs, to the rise of a file-sharing empire that redefined the ...