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, 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 conducted on it in cryptocurrency …
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US authorities have said they were able to access the ‘private key’ to the hackers’ bitcoin account of ransomware hackers Darkside Regulators have repeatedly criticised the growth of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin because of their popularity with criminals but the technology’s transparent transactions can also work against law breakers. The lesson is one that has …
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, alphabay darknet url blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record that comes as regulators call for more powers over the fast-growing sector. Crypto received by digital wallet addresses linked to illicit activity including scams, …
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Adrian V., 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 them for days. …
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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 …
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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> What do Dunkin’ Donuts, Fortnite, Sprint and the Dow Jones company all have in common? They’ve all suffered from massive hacks in 2019 alone. After every data breach, victim data often surfaces on the encrypted “hidden” internet known as the , a network of sites that can only be accessed with …
A lawyer for the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are ‘flight risks’ because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city. The couple’s lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and darkmarket 2022 $4.5million bail respectively, …
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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Earlier this month, hundreds of companies from the US to Sweden were entangled in the , a company that offers network infrastructure to businesses around the world. The Kaseya hack comes on the heels of other headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the and the . In each instance, criminals had the opportunity to make off with …
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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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Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don’t lag far behind – featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to …
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