THE HAGUE, Oct 26 (Reuters) – At least 150 people have been arrested by European and U.S.authorities after a joint crackdown on traders of drugs, weapons and other illicit goods on darknet market e-commerce sites, Dutch media reported Tuesday citing ...
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Australian man accused of running world's biggest 'dark web' market
An Australian man is accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace which has been called the biggest in the world and ‘ for criminals’. A joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, the , Europol, and German authorities, ...
Crypto money laundering rises 30% in 2021 -Chainalysis
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up 30% from 2020, dark market 2024 according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Wednesday. Overall, cybercriminals have laundered ...
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 ...
First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
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 ...
A timeline of the biggest ransomware attacks
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 ...
Germany sees a rise in far-right crime
has announced a spike in far-right and warned that political extremists are ‘the biggest threat to our country.’ The interior ministry reported another annual increase in anti-Semitic crimes, up by 15.7 per cent in 2020, with 2,351 total incidents – ...
The largest dark web market for illegal goods is no more
id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Two of the three largest dark web darknet markets 2024 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 ...
Former Swiss police employee accused of selling weapons via darknet
ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) – The former chief of logistics for a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and bullets on behalf of his employer and selling them via the darknet market. ...
Cybercrooks steal code for Electronic Arts games including FIFA 21
Hackers have stolen the source code for Electronic Arts (EA) games including and tools like the ‘Frostbite’ engine that powers titles such as the ‘Battlefield’ series. The California-based video game company acknowledged the cybercrime on Thursday June 10, Share this ...
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 ...
U.S. arrests couple for allegedly laundering $4.5 bln in crypto…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) – The FBI arrested a husband and wife on Tuesday morning, alleging they conspired to launder cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hack of virtual currency exchange Bitfinex, and onion ...
Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, dark market web markets Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April ...
The largest dark web market for illegal goods is no more
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 ...
Former Swiss police employee accused of selling weapons via darknet
ZURICH, dark markets April 8 (Reuters) – The former chief of logistics for a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and bullets on behalf of his employer and dark web market urls ...
Irish health system struggling to recover from cyberattack
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 ...
Fake vaccine card price doubles after Biden announces mandatory shots
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 ...
More than 150 arrested in global crackdown on Darknet traders:…
THE HAGUE, Oct 26 (Reuters) – At least 150 people have been arrested by European and U.S.authorities after a joint crackdown on traders of drugs, weapons and other illicit goods on darknet e-commerce sites, Dutch media reported Tuesday citing police ...
Global Drug Survey reveals alcohol and drug habits during pandemic
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 ...
One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests
Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations. The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, Europol said today. Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered ...