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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, …

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A timeline of the biggest ransomware attacks

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> The history of technology is riddled with unintended consequences. As William Gibson wrote in Burning Chrome, “…the street finds its own uses for things.” Though Bitcoin may not have been originally conceived as a medium for ransom payments, it’s quickly become a central tool for online criminals. Ransomware, a category of …

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Inside busted illegal $220million darknet data centre

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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 websites.  An Australian man was arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace – called the biggest in …

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MDMA use drops due to COVID lockdowns, other drugs rise -EU report

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LISBON, darkmarket March 17 (Reuters) – The closure of nightclubs and bars during COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe is likely behind a significant drop in the use of party drug MDMA last year but consumption of other substances such as cocaine and cannabis kept rising, an EU study said on Thursday. Conducted by the Lisbon-based European …

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The largest dark web market for illegal goods is no more

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Two of the three largest dark web markets are closed for business. The Department of Justice and Europol announced Thursday that they have that served hundreds of thousands of customers trying to get their hands on illegal goods online. While you or I can easily buy groceries, electronics and clothes online, …

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Crocodile of Wall Street hilariously bad raps granted bail at $3m

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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 …

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Wife freed while husband jailed pending trial for Bitcoin laundering

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An alleged fraudster dubbed The Crocodile of Wall Street over claims she laundered $4.5 billion in has been freed on bail  – but her husband darknet sites has been ordered to stay in jail.   Heather Morgan was freed by a judge Monday, pending trial by a federal court.But her husband Ilya Lichtenstein remains behind bars …

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Germany shuts down darknet platform specializing in drugs

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BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Tuesday shut down a Russian-language darknet marketplace that they say specialized in drug dealing, darknet marketplace seizing bitcoin worth 23 million euros ($25.3 million). Prosecutors in Frankfurt described the “Hydra darknet market” platform as the world’s biggest illegal darknet market marketplace.They said they seized its server infrastructure in Germany. …

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Fake vaccine card price doubles after Biden announces mandatory shots

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The price of fake vaccination cards has risen 100% since President Biden’s announcement of a sweeping new vaccine mandate.  In the days before the president’s announcement that all businesses with over 100 employees must require vaccinations or weekly testing, the cost of a fraudulent card ran about $100. The day after the announcement, the average …

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U.S. announces international crackdown on DarkNet opioid trafficking

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By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – An international operation targeting trafficking in opioids on a clandestine part of the internet called the darknet market has led to about 150 arrests in the United States and Europe and the seizure of drugs, cash and guns, U.S.and European authorities said on Tuesday. The crackdown, called …

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