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Crypto money laundering rises 30% in 2021 -Chainalysis
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, dark web market links darknet market url Jan 26 (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, darknet market darknet markets 2024 up 30% from 2020, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Wednesday. Overall, cybercriminals have laundered more than $33 billion worth of crypto since 2017, Chainalysis estimated, with most of the total over time moving to centralized exchanges. The firm said the sharp rise in money laundering activity in 2021 was not surprising, given the significant growth of both legitimate and illegal crypto activity last year. Money…
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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 arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace - called the biggest in the world and ' for criminals' - after ha was tracked following the bunker's discovery. The joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, the , Europol, and German authorities, among others, darkmarket list arrested the man, 34, as he allegedly tried flee across the Danish…
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Cross-border drug trafficking cases nearly doubled in four years…
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 in the European Union alone has an estimated value of 30 billion euros ($36 billion) annually.The rapid rise of production of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamines and their sale via online darknet market places on the darknet market poses a big challenge to prosecutors across…
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Crypto crime hit record $14 billion in 2021, research shows
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, darknet market marketplace blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record that comes as regulators call for more powers over the fast-growing sector. Crypto received by digital wallet addresses linked to illicit activity including scams, darknet sites markets and ransomware jumped 80% from a year earlier, Chainalysis said in a report.The activity represented just 0.15% of total crypto transaction volumes, its lowest ever. Overall volumes soared to $15.8 trillion in 2021, up over five-fold from a year earlier, U.S.-based Chainalysis…
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Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, darknet market list many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year - some 55% of all criminal crypto flows identified by U.S.blockchain researcher Chainalysis. A cryptocurrency address is a set of random letters and numbers that represents a location on a virtual network. Bitcoin, for instance, can be sent from a particular address…
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Massive dark web bust seizes $6.5 million from 179 alleged drug dealers
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> The US Justice Department announced the largest dark web bust it has ever helped carry out, seizing more than 1,100 pounds of drugs from 179 alleged online dealers around the world. The US worked with police in Europe to carry out the investigation, darknet market lists seizing more than $6.5 million in cash and virtual currencies. Operation DisrupTor darknet market list -- named after the frequently used to access the dark web -- was led by police in Germany, along with US law enforcement agencies and Europol. The majority of the arrests took place in the US with…
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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 - 94.6% of which were committed by a far-right suspect.Of the total, 62 were acts of violence while the majority were antisemitic hate speech and other related crimes, frequently on social media.Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said: 'This development in Germany is not only troubling, but in view of our history, deeply shameful.' A protester with an Iron Cross draped over his back outside…
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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 millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and guns. The bust stems from a German-led police sting earlier this year taking down the 'world's largest' darknet market marketplace.Darknet markets are e-commerce sites designed to lie beyond the reach of regular search engines and are popular with criminals, as buyers and sellers are largely untraceable. Police around the world have…
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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 ransom payments, it's quickly become a central tool for online criminals.Ransomware, a category of "," blocks access to a computer or network until a ransom is paid. Despite the evolving efforts of governments to and , the attacks keep coming. Cryptocurrency ransomware payments totaled roughly $350 million in 2020, -- an annual increase of over 300% from 2019. And because US companies are legally…
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German police make arrests over massive child pornography website
BERLIN, May 3 (Reuters) - German police have uncovered one of the world's largest underground websites for dark web marketplaces web darknet market urls child pornography with more than 400,000 users and arrested four people connected to the platform, prosecutors said on Monday. The "BOYSTOWN" platform has existed since at least June 2019 and was only accessible via the so-called darknet markets 2024, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office and the BKA Federal Police said in a statement. The website has more than 400,000 users and was used for darknet market darknet markets onion address url the worldwide exchange of child…
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