What it’s like to run Astalavista.box.sk — the World’s most popular search engine for hackers?

Dancho Danchev
12 min readSep 10, 2021
Sample Screenshot of Astalavista.box.sk’s Flagship Search Engine for Hackers

It used to be a situation where technological “know-how” and operational capabilities to make an impact globally used to be the primary motivation factor for an entire generation of hackers/crackers/phreakers and security experts globally today’s modern and sophisticated security industry with hundreds of participants and high-profile experts who are basically responsible for protecting high-profile and nation-state networks including their direct involvement in high-profile and sensitive security and cyber intelligence gathering projects where everyone is busy gathering cyber intelligence including to actually take the game a little bit deeper potentially causing widespread industry buzz in case where a successful cyber attack attribution takes place or in case where the team of professionals somehow manages to establish a direct relationship between a cyber attack instance with a real-life person or a group of people most notably hackers or another team of high-profile or nation-state hacking group or a team of professional security experts.

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Dancho Danchev

Cybercrime Researcher OSINT Analyst Security Blogger Threat Intelligence Analyst DNS Threat Researcher WhoisXML API — https://ddanchev.blogspot.com