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Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. The "Joker's Stash" marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and other digital coins, ceased operations this month, Elliptic said on Friday, dark web market urls in what it called a rare example of such a site bowing out on its own terms. Criminal use of cryptocurrencies has long worried regulators,…
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Germany shuts down darknet platform specializing in drugs
BERLIN (AP) - German investigators on Tuesday shut down a Russian-language darknet market marketplace that they say specialized in drug dealing, seizing bitcoin worth 23 million euros ($25.3 million). Prosecutors in Frankfurt described the "Hydra darknet market" platform as the world's biggest illegal darknet market marketplace.They said they seized its server infrastructure in Germany. The shutdown was the result of investigations underway since August, in which U.S. authorities participated. The U.S. Treasury Department also announced Tuesday it was sanctioning Hydra as well as a virtual currency exchange, dark web sites Garantex, that operates out of Russia.The department said both entities…
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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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Germany charges man who allegedly planned Hamburg attack
BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year's 20th anniversary of the Sept.11, 2001 attacks in the United States. The German-Moroccan dual citizen, identified only as Abdurrahman C. in line with German privacy rules, darknet markets links was in August. An indictment filed at the Hamburg state court charges him with preparing a serious act of violence and violating weapons laws. It wasn't immediately clear when the case might go to trial. Federal prosecutors alleged the suspect decided by January…
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U.S. announces international crackdown on DarkNet opioid trafficking
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - An international operation targeting trafficking in opioids on a clandestine part of the internet called the darknet market has led to about 150 arrests in the United States and Europe and the seizure of drugs, cash and guns, U.S.and European authorities said on Tuesday. The crackdown, called Operation Dark HunTor, was announced at a U.S. Justice Department news conference where Deputy U.S Attorney General Lisa Monaco warned cyberspace drug sellers: "There is no dark web sites internet. We can and we will shed a light." Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, deputy director of the international…
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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, 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 laundering refers to that process of disguising the origin of illegally obtained…
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German police take down one of the world's biggest child porn sites
German police have taken down one of the world's largest child porn sites with over 400,000 members and arrested four people accused of running it.The site, known as BOYSTOWN and accessible only via the so-called Darkweb, had existed since July 2019 and was used for the worldwide exchange of child porn.Investigators spent months probing the site and those behind it, darknet markets url before arresting three main suspects along with a fourth man in raids last month. German police have taken down a child porn site with over 400,00 members and arrested four men in connection with running it (file…
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Four paedophiles jailed in Germany for raping boys in garden shed
Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victimsFour paedophiles have been jailed in for raping boys after luring them to a shed where they drugged them and abused them for days.Adrian V., darknet market markets 2024 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse in a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims.Along with three other men, Adrian V.was found to have trapped boys in…
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Crypto money laundering rises 30% in 2021 -Chainalysis
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, darknet market Jan 26 (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up 30% from 2020, darknet websites according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Wednesday. Overall, darknet market marketplace 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 laundering refers to that process…
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U.S. arrests couple for allegedly laundering $4.5 bln in crypto…
By Sarah N. Lynch and darknet markets url Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The FBI arrested a husband and wife on Tuesday morning, darknet market markets alleging they conspired to launder cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hack of virtual currency exchange Bitfinex, and said law enforcement has already seized over $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the hack. The action represents the Justice Department's largest-ever financial seizure, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, adding in a statement that it shows cryptocurrency is "not a safe haven for criminals." Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, both…
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