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The Ohio man is charged with running a Bitcoin mixer to launder over $300m—now worth $3.6b—on behalf of Dark Net crooks trying to hide out. Continue reading Police bust alleged operator of Bitcoin mixing service Helix
Dark web marketplace moderator Bryan Connor Herrell pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to engage in a racketeer-influenced corrupt organization. While the infamous Silk Road made a lot more headlines, another dark web market place had ma… Continue reading AlphaBay Dark Web Market Moderator Faces up to 20 Years in Prison
Wannabe cybercriminals no longer are relying on dark web marketplaces to buy and sell their hacking tools, it seems. The selection and prices of malicious software offerings on well known dark web markets has remained mostly unchanged since 2017, according to findings published Tuesday by the risk intelligence firm Flashpoint. The mostly stagnant prices on these forums, which are most frequently used to buy and sell narcotics, is the latest proof that, even as cybercriminals continue to harass victims, skilled hackers are moving to more private channels to trade the most valuable techniques, suggested Ian Gray, Flashpoint’s director of analysis and research. The quality of the tools, like commodity malware and distributed denial-of-service rental services, also has remained steady, even as defenses have improved. “There’s a lack of innovation we’re seeing in the kinds of goods and on the marketplaces,” Gray said. “It might be an indication they’re looking at […]
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Vulnerabilities, stolen credentials and an evolution of marketplaces mark the Dark Web in Q3. Continue reading Threatlist: Dark Web Markets See an Evolution in Q3
A French police officer has been charged with using police intelligence data to power a mobile phone tracking service sold via the dark web. Continue reading Cop charged with selling phone tracking service on dark web
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AlphaBay was one of the largest dark web marketplaces – In 2017, its admin Alexandre Cazes committed suicide in a Thai prison. The Fresno Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has finally concluded a … Continue reading Dark Web: US court seizes assets and properties of deceased AlphaBay operator
The DoJ announced arrests, charges and guilty pleas as part of Operation Darkness Falls, which involved several government agencies. Continue reading Top dark web drug vendors nabbed by ‘Operation Darkness Falls’
As around 35 alleged drug vendors have found out to their cost, you never know who you’ll meet on the dark web.
In the case of the customers of one money laundering operation, it turned out to be agents working for the US Immigration and Customs Enf… Continue reading Fake Bitcoin exchange traps drug dealers on the dark web
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London Metropolitan Police seized more than £500,000 ($667,000) in bitcoin from a hacker convicted of phishing attacks against 100 global companies and possessing stolen financial and personal data from 78 million individuals. Grant West, 26, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison on Friday in London. West’s two-and-a-half-year-long scheme was to phish a wide range of targets, steal sensitive data and then sell the information on dark web markets. More than 47,000 such sales of stolen data were charged against him in court. Police shared the following screenshot of a vastly successful West phishing email: There is still £1.6 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency that remains unaccounted for that the sentencing judge described as “secreted away.” West was known online as Courvoisier, after the popular French cognac. He was a prominent vendor on the dark web market AlphaBay, which was the largest and most profitable of such sites until international police […]
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