As you collect more and more pixels and as the atonal background "music" drones on and on, your pixel-blob and the items it must collect grow and grow as your character slowly transforms into a parasitic twin, the man's face growing progressively less cheerful all the while. You start off as a single pixel, collecting other pixels in a level shaped like a man's body. Covetous, a retraux Flash game found on Newgrounds ( WARNING: contains flashing lights).It's a fun game in spite of it though, with a great gameplay mechanic. Especially when you start figuring out what it's about. This flash game is just plain freakin' unsettling. The part after the protagonist's husband gets stung by the monsters is especially scare-worthy. Watch the walkthroughs here, here, here, and finally here. The game Vorago, though made with intent to scare, had some parts with over-the-top nightmareish-ness.The company, without providing specifics, says it expects “more (site) takedowns and arrests in the near future. Looking ahead, Trend Micro says it will continue to investigate the underground Internet and alert law enforcement to illegal sites. Investigations will have to keep up with this fast pace.” They could be up one day and gone the next. The life span of most underground sites is short. “Although several criminal transactions are done out in the open, they are very fickle. “This underground is a glass tank, as much as it is transparent, it is also fragile,” Trend Micro wrote. The company also noted that while making the sites more accessible to North American buyers may be helpful in securing revenue, it also makes them more visible to law enforcement seeking out such services. and Canadian governments have been working hard at taking down the sites and finding those behind them. Users also can buy fake passports and stolen credit card credentials. An e-commerce store discovered by Trend Micro has a convenient drop-down list, offering customers counterfeit items, fraudulent documents, and weapons of all kinds. Trend Micro discovered that customers can find tools that help them hack into computers and servers. “We found a guide for making crack, for instance, sold for a mere $5.”ĭrugs and murder are just the tip of the iceberg. “Apart from actual drugs, guides on producing them or the tools needed to do so are also available,” Trend Micro writes in its report. While the site was taken down in 2013, Trend Micro says many others have cropped up in its place, offering customers everything from marijuana to heroin. The underground Internet became a focal point earlier this year when Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground e-commerce site where users could order drugs to be shipped to their homes, was sentenced to life in prison. All of that anonymizing not only makes it harder to find users, but also to determine the legitimacy of the sites and services offered. They often also pay in the cryptocurrency bitcoin, which encrypts transactions and hides the identities of those who own the digital currency. Regardless, Trend Micro says accessing the underground Internet is somewhat easy, and users who do so often employ anonymizers to hide their identities. Just 1% claim to offer murder-for-hire, and several reports over the years from investigators to Reddit users who claim to have been on the dark web have questioned whether those sites are even legitimate. The vast majority of sites living there-62%-cater to drug users. The site called the mysteries surrounding the dark web little more than an “exaggerated myth” that encompasses a “small collection of websites.” Indeed, Trend Micro estimates that there are just 100,000 people surfing the dark web. The investigation found that hit-men sites may either be fake or run by undercover law-enforcement officials. In August, Vice took a deep dive into the underground sites to see how they operate. Still, there is some speculation over just how big the dark web is. Law-enforcement officials have long warned that the dark web is a place where stolen Social Security numbers, credit cards, and illegal pornography are sold. Trend Micro’s findings are part of a broader study from the company on the Internet’s “underground.” The underground Internet or dark web is neither new nor by definition illegal-but for the vast majority of people, it’s an unknown world they’ve never been to. “Hit men provide certain guarantees of keeping their clients anonymous.” “Many murder-for-hire sites guarantee a certain level of ‘professionalism,'” Trend Micro says. Apparent hit men also charge for crippling, bombings, making a person “go missing,” and “simple” beatings of individuals or entire families. Targets in the public eye would cost $180,000. For $45,000, a hit man, offering “professionalism,” would murder someone upon request. Perhaps most shocking is that Trend Micro’s analysis took it to underground sites that offer murder for hire.
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