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First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy drugs, guns and child pornography,... Read More
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2024
U.S. arrests alleged 'Bitcoin Fog' money launderer
By Lawrence Delevingne BOSTON, April 28 (Reuters) – U.S.officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, dark web markets the alleged principal operator of cryptocurrency money laundering onion dark website Bitcoin Fog, darkmarket according to a federal court filing. Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and dark web marketplaces darknet market 2024 Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles... Read More
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Crocodile of Wall Street hilariously bad raps granted bail at $3m
It appears the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street name Razzlekhan. In a series of cringey videos posted to YouTube, the wannabe performer can be seen walking around Wall Street while... Read More
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2024
German investigators shut down big darknet marketplace
BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday that they have taken down what they believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet marketplace and arrested its suspected operator. The site, known as DarkMarket, was shut down on Monday, prosecutors in the southwestern city of Koblenz said.All sorts of drugs, forged money, stolen or darkmarket... Read More
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2024
Germany busts international child porn site used by 400,000
BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world’s biggest international darknet market platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, best darknet markets said to be the... Read More
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2024
Inside busted illegal $220million darknet data centre
Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet market websites. An Australian man was arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace – called the biggest... Read More
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2024
U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian darknet market and crypto exchange
WASHINGTON, darkmarket 2024 April 5 (Reuters) – The U.S.Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Russia-based darknet market site and a cryptocurrency exchange that it said operates primarily out of Moscow and dark web market urls St. Petersburg. The sanctions against Russia-Based Hydra and darknet market sites currency exchange Garantex, published on the Treasury... Read More
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2024
Four paedophiles jailed in Germany for raping boys in garden shed
Adrian V., dark market onion 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother – who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims Four paedophiles have been jailed in for raping boys after luring them to a shed where they drugged them and abused... Read More
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2024
US sanctions crypto exchange over ransomware ties
Washington has announced sanctions against a cryptocurrency exchange it says has worked with ransomware attackers The United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on cryptocurrency exchange SUEX for its ties to ransomware extortionists, as Washington seeks to crack down on a sharp rise in digital crime attacks. The move marks the first US sanctions against a virtual... Read More
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Sep
2024
Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, onion dark website received $1.3 billion in illicit digital... Read More