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Child porn purveyor to get 21-27 years under new plea deal
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A man whom U.S. authorities have described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison under the terms of a new plea deal. The deal between Eric Eoin Marques and Justice Department prosecutors is designed to satisfy a judge in Maryland who rejected their original agreement, which called for a prison sentence of 15 to 21 years. Defense attorneys outlined the new terms in a court filing on Friday.They said a 21-year prison sentence would be "fair and just" for Marques. Marques' lawyers also urged…
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First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy drugs, guns and child pornography, had flourished since 2014, when a predecessor, Silk Road, was shut down. Fueled by Tor browsers and cryptocurrencies that offer anonymity, AlphaBay, Hansa and other sites avoided much government detection, allowing in the wake of Silk Road's demise. AlphaBay replaced as the biggest, growing to be…
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Judge rejects plea deal for darknet child porn purveyor
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A federal judge rejected a plea agreement on Wednesday that called for 15 to 21 years in prison for a man authorities described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography. Eric Eoin Marques is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea from last year if the judge departs from the sentencing range prosecutors and defense attorneys recommended. But U.S.District Judge Theodore Chuang isn't bound by the terms of the Justice Department´s plea deal. "It's too flawed, and I also don't agree with the outcome," Chuang said. The judge said he's inclined to give Marques a…
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Global Drug Survey reveals alcohol and drug habits during pandemic
Australians are officially the world's biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don't lag far behind - featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey.Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to March 2021.The data also shows that the Irish felt the most remorse after drinking. Researchers believes extending Covid lockdowns contributed to the results RELATED ARTICLES Share this articleShare The survey found that the pandemic saw more experiment with 'microdosing' with psychedelics but people on average consumed…
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The history of hacking ransoms and cryptocurrency
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> Earlier this month, hundreds of companies from the US to Sweden were entangled in the , a company that offers network infrastructure to businesses around the world.The Kaseya hack comes on the heels of other headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the and the . In each instance, criminals had the opportunity to make off with millions -- and much of the ransoms were paid in Bitcoin."We have to remember the primary reason for creating Bitcoin in the first place was to provide anonymity and secure, trustless and borderless transaction capabilities," says Keatron Evans, principal security researcher at .As Bitcoin grows more prominent…
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Fake vaccine card price doubles after Biden announces mandatory shots
The price of fake vaccination cards has risen 100% since President Biden's announcement of a sweeping new vaccine mandate. In the days before the president's announcement that all businesses with over 100 employees must require vaccinations or dark web darknet market links weekly testing, the cost of a fraudulent card ran about $100. The day after the announcement, dark websites the average cost spiked to $200. The number of sellers cashing in on the anti-vax darknet market also spiked, from around 1,000 to more than 10,000, according to data from security firm Check Point shared with the Biden last Thursday also strengthened…
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'Crocodile of Wall St' and husband argue they are not a flight risk
A lawyer for the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya '' Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are 'flight risks' because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city.The couple's lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million bail respectively, dark websites saying the fact neither of them fled when given the chance upon first being alerted to the investigation, proves they would not run from the law if now freed on bail. Prosecutors are urging caution: It is believed the couple still have vast sums of money at…
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Germany busts international child porn site used by 400,000
BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors announced Monday they have busted one of the world's biggest international darknet marketplace platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, dark web darknet market said to be the administrators of the "Boystown" platform, were arrested along with a German user.One of the three main suspects was arrested in Paraguay. They also searched seven buildings in connection with the porn ring in mid-April in Germany. The authorities said the platform was "one of…
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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, 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 dark darknet market link instance, darknet market markets url can be…
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Australian man accused of running world's biggest 'dark web' market
An Australian man is accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace which has been called the biggest in the world and ' for darknet market list criminals'. A joint investigation by Australian Federal Police, Scotland Yard, the , Europol, and German authorities, among others, led to the arrest of the man, 34, as he tried to cross the Danish border into this week. The man, known only as Julian K, dark web market links is the alleged operator of DarkMarket and has been detained by German investigators. A screenshot of the illegal website allegedly run by the Australian man which displays drugs…
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