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'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband are arrested in Bitcoin scheme

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A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever.  Ilya ‘Dutch’ Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal charges of …

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Most weapons on the dark web come from US, study finds

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> US guns make up as much as 60 percent of the weapons on sale on the dark web, new research has found. Related links Weapons, drugs and darkmarket link stolen identities are readily available on the dark web, a . To investigate where guns, ammunition and guides to their use come from, …

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Cross-border drug trafficking cases nearly doubled in four years…

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THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) – The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, the agency said. In a report published on Monday Eurojust said drug trafficking …

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Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…

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By Tom Wilson LONDON, dark market onion Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and darkmarket 2023 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, received $1.3 billion in …

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Europol says illegal marketplace "DarkMarket" taken offline

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THE HAGUE, Jan 12 (Reuters) – An online marketplace called “DarkMarket” that sold illegal drugs has been taken down in an operation led by German law enforcement agencies, darknet market darknet market lists European police agency Europol said on Tuesday. The darknet market had almost 500,000 users with 2,400 sellers, Europol said in a statement.Transactions …

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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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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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Gab, the social network used by Pittsburgh shooting suspect, returns

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> , a fringe social network , dark markets 2023 resurfaced on Sunday.  The social media site, which dark markets itself as a bastion of free speech amid censorship of extremists on Twitter and dark web link Facebook, was intermittently available late Sunday. Clicking on links to the site sometimes would produce …

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German investigators shut down big darknet marketplace

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BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday that they have taken down what they believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet market 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 forged …

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Child porn purveyor to get 21-27 years under new plea deal

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COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) – A man whom U.S. authorities have described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison under the terms of a new plea deal. The deal between Eric Eoin Marques and Justice Department prosecutors is designed to satisfy a judge in …

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