On a darknet market called “Dread,” a vendor going by “ExploitDOT” is attempting to sell user data from the know-your-customer (KYC) data top cryptocurrency exchanges ask for, required by most jurisdictions. According to data shared with CCN, the hacke…
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A new report has found that when it comes to selling drugs online, the Netherlands is one of the leading countries selling drugs through darknet vendors. The report, Internet-facilitated drugs trade [pdf] was undertaken by the Dutch justice ministry and looked at the size, scope, and the role the Netherlands plays in the online drugs trade. […]
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A popular darknet marketplace has announced that it has prohibited the sale of fentanyl after a dramatic rise in the number of deaths related to fentanyl overdose in the last two years. According to NBC, in Philadelphia, there has been a 636 percent increase in overdoses from the medical-grade opioid fentanyl. What is Fentanyl? Fentanyl […]
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The popular crypto-currency Monero has increased approximately 200% over the past week as darknet marketplaces have adopted the currency. The cryptocurrency, formerly BitMonero, focuses on privacy and scalability as its two main use-cases. The recent gains bring the Monero market cap to more than $20 million. Monero functions on the proof of work consensus algorithm, […]
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Investigations in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in Munich which saw nine people killed in a Munich shopping center on Friday will now see darknet markets under the scanner. Speaking to journalists today, Holger Muench, the chief of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (also known as Bundeskriminalamt or BKA), has stated that the emergence […]
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German media is suggesting that the gun used during the Munich terror attack was bought through the Darknet with Bitcoin. Germany is the latest European country hit by a wave of gun activity with the world still reeling in shock from the news of 18-year-old David Sonboly who killed nine people in the Olympia shopping […]
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Paris politician Bernard Debré, the deputy of the National Assembly of France and a member of the Union for a Popular Movement in Paris, has stated that Bitcoin should be banned in the city, according to a local report. Recently, the bureaucrat participated in a French-based survey, conducted by the magazine Current Values, where he […]
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It has been a tough couple of years for Ross Ulbricht and his family. In mid-2015, Ross Ulbricht learned his fate for his involvement in Silk Road (which was futilely appealed). The Silk Road, as readers may remember, was an online black market that featured everything from guns to drugs to counterfeit documents for sale. His […]
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Ever since the arrest of Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco, online darknet marketplaces have remained a formidable means by which individuals can procure illegal goods. Authorities, well-aware, have investigated and made arrests in the time since Ulbricht’s trial. During that time, discussion has increased regarding the actual anonymity provided by the darknet. As has been […]
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A German court has sentenced a young man to seven years’ juvenile detention for running a multi-million-euro online drug business from his bedroom in his mother’s apartment, according to The Guardian, the London, U.K.-based newspaper. The man sold nearly one ton of drugs on the Darknet and the open Internet, taking payment in bitcoin and delivering drugs by registered mail. Police described the operation as highly sophisticated. The man, referred to as Maximilian S, rented computer servers in the Netherlands and used IP addresses throughout Germany. He also encrypted his email, took payment in bitcoin and used bank accounts set up with false […]
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A recent series of busts has shaken the world of dark net weapons commerce. A six-month joint investigation between law enforcement in Australia and the United States, which involved law enforcement going undercover as weapons dealers, has resulted in 17 arrests internationally. In September 2014, the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) identified a 33-year-old US-based […]
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Last year, a Swiss art group called !Mediengruppe Bitnik created a robot to shop on Agora, which is currently the largest Darknet market. They gave the bot $100 per week in bitcoins and programmed it to randomly buy items. It bought a wide variety of things, which were delivered to the group’s gallery in Switzerland, […]
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