Tag: Darknet
U.S. Seizes Drug Ring’s $54M Crypto Stash as Prisoners Hatched Big Plans for Assets
What started out as $9,000 in ETH when they first invested the drug proceeds blossomed into about $53 million, authorities said, plus a wide assortmen [...]
BTC Valued at $144M Sent to Coin Mixer From Defunct Darknet Market After Eight-Year Wait
An entity has moved 4,800 BTC ($144M) to a coin mixer from a wallet tied to defunct darknet marketplace Abraxas, which closed in 2015.
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Darknet bad actors work together to steal your crypto, here’s how — Binance CSO
Lurking in the shadiest corners of the dark web is a “well-established” ecosystem of hackers that target cryptocurrency users with poor “security hygi [...]
Darknet hackers are selling crypto accounts for as low as $30 a pop
Cybercriminals from the darkest parts of the internet are reportedly selling hacked, verified crypto accounts on the darknet for as low as just $30 ap [...]
EU-Funded Report Calls for Crypto ID Checks, Police Training to Combat Darknet Markets
Forbidding the use of cryptocurrency entirely does little to curb darknet activity, and police-led closures such as that of Hydra in 2022 tend to have [...]
Darknet Revenues Fell After Hydra’s Shutdown: Chainalysis
That was not the case for websites selling illicit goods other than drugs, for example, stolen personal data – their fortunes continued to go down. Fo [...]
US sanctions Russia’s largest darknet market and crypto exchange Garantex
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has announced it will impose sanctions on darknet market Hydra and vir [...]
US Sanctions Russia’s Hydra Darknet, Identifies Over 100 Virtual Currency Addresses
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German Authorities Shut Down Russian Darknet Market, Seize $25M in Bitcoin
The marketplace's bitcoin privacy mixer complicated the investigation, police said.
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International Police Seize $4.9M in Crypto From Alleged Darknet Drug Traffickers
International police including the FBI-led Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) and Europol have busted a group of 150 alleged dar [...]
Darknet crypto mixer operator pleads responsible to laundering $300M in BTC
Ohio man, Larry Dean Harmon, has pleaded responsible to laundering greater than $300 million whereas working the Darknet-based Bitcoin mixing servi [...]
SEC points first ever costs over phoney ‘insider data’ on darknet
The U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee has introduced costs in opposition to California resident James Roland Jones within the first-ever enforcemen [...]
Darknet market hyperlink supplier claims its Bitcoin donors’ accounts had been frozen
The administrator of darkish.fail, an internet site offering verified hyperlinks to darknet markets, claims that exchanges are unfairly closing acc [...]
India’s Crypto Ban, the Darknet and Virgil Griffith’s Saga Cont’
On this episode, Anna Baydakova, Tanzeel Akhtar and Danny Nelson focus on doable crypto restrictions in India, contemporary darknet market analysis [...]
Film based mostly on darknet market Silk Highway premiering in February
Silk Highway founder Ross Ulbricht’s story is coming to the silver display in 2021 following an announcement from main leisure firm Lionsgate.In ke [...]