Law enforcement in Valencia, Spain, arrested four suspected drug dealers for allegedly conspiring to purchase MDMA, ketamine, Viagra, and other substances from vendors on dark web marketplaces and then selling the drugs throughout Valencia. According to a statement from authorities in Spain, the investigation began in 2018 after the police arrested an individual at a music festival for suspected drug ... Read More »
A 26 year old female was arrested in Vinnytsia, a city in Ukraine 125 kilometers away from Kyiv, on March 14th for organizing a criminal scheme on the dark web. Oppositely to most cyber criminals, she was not offering illicit drugs, forged documents, counterfeited money, or hacking services for sale. Instead, her goods which were offered to the highest bidders ... Read More »
Law enforcement in Massachusetts seized more than 24 pounds of drugs during the execution of two search warrants in connection with an investigation into a prolific dark web drug dealer. On March 27, both state and federal law enforcement officers executed search warrants at locations in Stoughton and Brockton. During the course of their searches, the police found a total ... Read More »
During the present era of communication technologies, the magnitude of data is expanding almost every hour. Extraction of knowledge, or more especially data mining of large volumes of data, represents a considerable challenge. Even though there are currently a myriad of effective methods for knowledge discovery, when data mining is considered, sequential rule mining represents one of the most vital ... Read More »
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Ohio announced that it had charged a 25-year-old Massillon man who allegedly sold a variety of drugs on the dark web. The man reportedly owned a drug house where he manufactured, packaged, and distributed the drugs. He also owned firearms that he used to facilitate the drug trafficking operation. According to ... Read More »
Three Brockton men accused of dark web drug trafficking were arrested following an investigation by state police detectives and federal agents. The men allegedly run the operation from a storage unit in Stoughton, accepted payments in bitcoin and used the postal system to distribute the drugs to customers from all parts of the US. The trio’s arrest reportedly resulted in ... Read More »
In March, a court in Austria sentenced a dark web vendor to three years in prison for selling almost 70,000 counterfeit euro notes on various dark web marketplaces. The counterfeiter had previously admitted to charges of counterfeiting and money laundering. A spokesperson for the sentencing court in Leoben, Austria, announced that the case against one of the largest vendors of ... Read More »
The defense of a 17-year-old girl charged with four counts of drug distribution filed a motion to have the statements given by the girl after her arrest in the summer of 2018 suppressed. The girl pleaded not guilty to all the charges levelled against her in early August. She allegedly ordered ecstasy and U-4770 on the dark web and had ... Read More »
Law enforcement authorities have reported that the two men who carried out the Suzana school attack in Brazil had arranged the whole plan through an online platform of the dark web. The platform, known as Dogolachan, was created by Marcelo V. Silveira, a known cryptocurrency fanatic and neo-Nazi. His beliefs contributed to him creating the platform for brainwashing and mass ... Read More »
A 23 year old man from Nidderdale, Yorkshire, received a sentence of imprisonment for selling illicit class A drugs purchased over the dark web. Ashley Miller, who comes from a family with a considerable number of police and prison officers, searched the world wide web out of curiosity, seeking drugs for personal use. He admitted selling the drugs he bought ... Read More »
The German authorities are currently investigating a series of over 100 anonymous email messages, most probably sent by far right extremists to politicians, lawyers, journalists, and a number of public figures across Germany, even including a famous pop star. According to reports by NDR regional broadcaster and Süddeutsche daily, these emails included bomb and other homicide threats, or claimed possession of ... Read More »
In March, law enforcement in the United States arrested two men for allegedly using dark web markets to sell millions of dollars’ worth of fentanyl and carfentanil. According to an official press release, the suspects sold through accounts on the Alphabay and Dream Market dark web marketplaces. The suspects, based out of New York, were investigated by the United States ... Read More »
An East Aurora woman has been arrested by the Homeland Police and is being charged for a plot to hire a hitman on the dark web using bitcoins to assault and maim her ex-boyfriend. According to a statement released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Western District of New York, Yanyan Lesser, 47, is being accused attempting to hire ... Read More »
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) announced that it had suspended the licenses of two cryptocurrency exchanges in the country. The regulatory authority decided to suspend the exchanges after investigations by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) linked them to a dark web drug trafficking group. The AFP started the investigations against the organised crime group in February 2017 ... Read More »
In the coming decade, the Dark Web may become even easier to access than it is at present. Many blockchain start-ups are planning to create new decentralised alternatives to the web services we use today. This concept is called the Web 3.0. Projects like Storj, Status, and Substratum all aim to make internet storage faster, easier and, most importantly, uncensored. ... Read More »
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