LISBON, March 17 (Reuters) – The closure of nightclubs and darkmarket url 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, dark market 2023 an EU study said on Thursday. Conducted …
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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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LONDON (AP) – Ireland´s health system was still struggling to restore its computers and treat patients on Tuesday, four days after it shut down its entire IT system in response to a cyberattack. Thousands of diagnostic appointments, cancer treatment clinics and surgeries have been canceled or delayed since a ransomware attack on Friday.Authorities said hundreds …
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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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By Lawrence Delevingne BOSTON, April 28 (Reuters) – U.S.officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, darkmarket the alleged principal operator of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, dark darknet market according to a federal court filing. Sterlingov, dark websites a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles on money-laundering related charges. Bitcoin Fog, …
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BERLIN (AP) – German investigators on Tuesday shut down a Russian-language darknet market marketplace that they say specialized in drug dealing, 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. The …
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